Best Claude skills for code review
Code review skills turn your agent into a reviewer with a checklist: correctness, security, naming, test coverage and scope creep. The best ones separate requesting a review from receiving one, so the agent neither rubber-stamps nor argues with valid feedback.
62 code review skills · ranked live · November 2026
The top 10. Ranked by the Alyn Score.
- 1#1
Matt Pocock
Code Review
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code…
Pack321k33MScore 95 - 2#2
Setup Pre Commit
Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set up Husky, configure lint-staged, or…
Pack321k33MScore 91 - 3#3
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincent
Receiving Code Review
Use when receiving code review feedback, before implementing suggestions, especially if feedback seems unclear or technically questionable - requires technical rigor and verification, not…
Pack316k3.9MScore 90 - 4#4
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Requesting Code Review
Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements
Pack316k3.9MScore 87 - 5#5
Addy Osmani
Code Review And Quality
Conducts multi-axis code review. Use before merging any change. Use when reviewing code written by yourself, another agent, or a human. Use when you need to assess code quality across…
Pack115k1.8MScore 85 - 6#6
JuliusBrussee
Caveman Review
Compressed code review - one line per finding with location, problem and fix. Use for /caveman-review, "review this PR", or "review the diff".
Pack119k4.8MScore 84 - 7#7
wshobson
Agents
wshobson
Multi Reviewer Patterns
Coordinate parallel code reviews across multiple quality dimensions with finding deduplication, severity calibration, and consolidated reporting. Use this skill when organizing…
Pack42k2.6MScore 84 - 8#8
Yuan1z0825
Nature Reviewer
Provide evidence-grounded mock peer review of scientific manuscripts or excerpts, covering significance, validity, and major/minor concerns. Use for 模拟审稿、投稿前自审、审稿人视角评估; not author rebuttal…
Pack53k301kScore 84 - 9#9
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHub
Apple Appstore Reviewer
Serves as a reviewer of the codebase with instructions on looking for Apple App Store optimizations or rejection reasons.
Pack41k2.4MScore 83 - 10#10
Nature Response
Draft, audit, or revise responses to peer review, revision cover letters, and marked-manuscript or LaTeX revision packages. Use for 审稿意见回复、逐点回复、返修信、 rebuttals and edits to existing response…
Pack53k301kScore 83
What makes a great code review skill.
Severity levels so real bugs are not buried under style nits.
Rules for responding to review comments, not only giving them.
Security and performance passes that can run on their own.
All 62 code review skills.
Matt Pocockcode-review
Review the changes since a fixed point (commit, branch, tag, or merge-base) along two axes: Standards (does the code follow this repo's documented coding standards?) and Spec (does the code…
Matt Pococksetup-pre-commit
Set up Husky pre-commit hooks with lint-staged (Prettier), type checking, and tests in the current repo. Use when user wants to add pre-commit hooks, set up Husky, configure lint-staged, or…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentreceiving-code-review
Use when receiving code review feedback, before implementing suggestions, especially if feedback seems unclear or technically questionable - requires technical rigor and verification, not…
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Jesse Vincentrequesting-code-review
Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements
Addy Osmanicode-review-and-quality
Conducts multi-axis code review. Use before merging any change. Use when reviewing code written by yourself, another agent, or a human. Use when you need to assess code quality across…
JuliusBrusseecaveman-review
Compressed code review - one line per finding with location, problem and fix. Use for /caveman-review, "review this PR", or "review the diff".
wshobson
Agents
wshobsonmulti-reviewer-patterns
Coordinate parallel code reviews across multiple quality dimensions with finding deduplication, severity calibration, and consolidated reporting. Use this skill when organizing…
Yuan1z0825nature-reviewer
Provide evidence-grounded mock peer review of scientific manuscripts or excerpts, covering significance, validity, and major/minor concerns. Use for 模拟审稿、投稿前自审、审稿人视角评估; not author rebuttal…
GitHub
Awesome Copilot
GitHubapple-appstore-reviewer
Serves as a reviewer of the codebase with instructions on looking for Apple App Store optimizations or rejection reasons.
Yuan1z0825nature-response
Draft, audit, or revise responses to peer review, revision cover letters, and marked-manuscript or LaTeX revision packages. Use for 审稿意见回复、逐点回复、返修信、 rebuttals and edits to existing response…
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202academic-paper-reviewer
Multi-perspective academic paper review with dynamic reviewer personas. Runs a 5-seat, role-separated review panel (Journal-Fit Reviewer + 3 peer-review roles + Devil's Advocate) with…
sambergolang-code-style
Golang code style conventions — line length and breaking, variable declarations, control flow clarity, when comments help vs hurt. Use when writing or reviewing Go code, asking about style…
sambergolang-lint
Linting best practices and golangci-lint configuration for Golang projects — running linters, configuring .golangci.yml, suppressing warnings with nolint directives, interpreting lint…
Jeffallan
Claude Skills
Jeffallancode-reviewer
Analyzes code diffs and files to identify bugs, security vulnerabilities (SQL injection, XSS, insecure deserialization), code smells, N+1 queries, naming issues, and architectural concerns…
Cloudflare
Security Audit Skill
Cloudflaresecurity-audit
Security guidance and vulnerability review for codebases, APIs, services, CLI tools, libraries, and daemons. Use for security questions, focused reviews, vulnerability research, security…
phuryncode-review
Moved to phuryn/product-engineering, where it is maintained in the ai-shipping plugin; this copy says where it went and how to install it. Use when asked to review changes, find bugs, audit…
tradermontydual-axis-skill-reviewer
Review skills in any project using a dual-axis method: (1) deterministic code-based checks (structure, scripts, tests, execution safety) and (2) LLM deep review findings. Use when you need…
tradermontyedge-strategy-reviewer
Critically review strategy drafts from edge-strategy-designer for edge plausibility, overfitting risk, sample size adequacy, and execution realism. Use when strategy_drafts/*.yaml exists…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanics-karpathy-reviewer
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vinvcncode-review
从固定点（commit、branch、tag 或 merge-base）开始，按 Standards（代码是否符合本仓库记录的编码标准？）和 Spec（代码是否符合来源 issue/spec 的要求？）两个轴线审查变更。两个审查会在并行子代理中运行，并并排报告。适用于用户想审查 branch、PR、进行中的变更，或要求“review since X”时。
daymadegithub-review-pr
Reviews PRs against the live base with immutable objects and three-way merges. Use for PR review/merge readiness, main changed, closed-PR reconsideration, open-PR sweeps, review-led repair…
brycewang-stanfordacademic-paper-reviewer
Multi-perspective academic paper review with dynamic reviewer personas. Simulates 5 independent reviewers (EIC + 3 peer reviewers + Devil's Advocate) with field-specific expertise. Supports…
rampstackcocode-review-web
Review web application code for bugs, security issues, performance problems, and stack-specific anti-patterns. Use this skill whenever the user wants to review code, debug a production…
kajisho5reviewing-ffmpeg-skill-changes
Review a change to the ffmpeg-skill repository for the failures its own contract makes possible — a claim in a result document that is true at one layer and false at the layer a caller…
foryourhealth111-pixelcode-reviewer
Default code-quality route for broad code review, PR review, maintainability, correctness, and regression-risk checks. Do not use as the primary route for dedicated OWASP/security audits…
Jakeschincariol
Instagram Agent Skill
Jakeschincariolig-caption
Write the Instagram caption - the line that survives the "... more" cut, the body, the single ask, the search terms and the three hashtags - and lint it before it goes out. Use when the…
plugin87critique
Adversarial design critique of the current work. Render it, look at it, and argue for rejection. Run after the gates are green, never instead of them.
conorbronsdon
Avoid AI Writing
conorbronsdonfalse-positive-reviewer
Use when a user asks what AI-writing flags mean, whether detector output proves AI authorship, or wants a careful interpretation of possible false positives, especially for academic…
briiirussell
Cybersecurity Skills
briiirussellnative-code-review
Review C, C++ and Rust source for memory-safety bugs: out-of-bounds reads and writes, integer overflow or truncation that feeds a size, use-after-free and double free, format strings…
Owl-Listener
Designer Skills
Owl-Listenerdesign-critique
Facilitate a structured team critique — framing, feedback rules, and actionable outcomes. Use when running a session with people in the room. For a solo expert review, use…
TheQtCompanyRnD
Agent Skills
TheQtCompanyRnDqt-cpp-review
Invoke when the user asks to review, check, audit, or look over Qt6 C++ code — or suggest before committing. Runs deterministic linting (60+ rules) then deep-analysis agents (scaled to the…
TheQtCompanyRnD
Agent Skills
TheQtCompanyRnDqt-qml-review
Invoke when the user asks to review, check, audit, or look over Qt6 QML code -- or suggest before committing. Runs deterministic linting (48+ rules) then deep-analysis agents (scaled to the…
dzhngcode-review
Review changed code for naming, stale references, unnecessary complexity, and comment quality. Use after completing implementation work, before committing, or when the user asks to review…
levnikolaevich
Claude Code Skills
levnikolaevichln-33-plan-reviewer
Reviews a concrete implementation plan for missing decisions, feasibility and risk before execution; read-only.
Jakeschincariol
Youtube Agent Skill
Jakeschincariolyt-package
Write and lint the title and thumbnail for a YouTube video as one pairing, checking truncation, duplication and vagueness before publish. Use for "title ideas", "what should I call this"…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aiai-governance-reviewer-carl-ditzler
Use this skill when the user wants an AI governance, legal-risk, privacy, compliance, procurement, or vendor-risk review of an internal AI use case, an AI product feature, an LLM workflow…
Code review skills, explained.
Also searched as: code review skill, pr review skill claude, ai code reviewer.
What are the best Claude skills for code review?
Right now the top-ranked code review skills on Alyn are Code Review (Matt Pocock), Setup Pre Commit (Matt Pocock), Receiving Code Review (Jesse Vincent). Rankings combine GitHub stars, installs, freshness and depth, and update live.
Can a skill review pull requests automatically?
Yes, when paired with GitHub access (CLI or MCP). The skill defines how to review; the tool gives access to the diff.
Which code review skill is most popular?
Matt Pocock's code-review and Superpowers' requesting/receiving-code-review lead by stars. See the live ranking below.
How do I install a code review skill?
Run npx skills add owner/repo in your project, or copy the folder with SKILL.md into ~/.claude/skills. Every skill on this page has a ready-to-copy command.
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