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

Matt Pocock
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
Jesse Vincent
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
Yuan1z0825
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.
Aperivue
Medsci Skills
check-reporting
Use when auditing a manuscript item by item against a reporting guideline or risk-of-bias tool. Covers 49 reporting guidelines and risk-of-bias tools (STROBE, CONSORT, STARD, TRIPOD+AI…
posit-dev
Skills
critical-code-reviewer
Rigorously review code or pull requests for correctness, security, accessibility, maintainability, tests, and edge cases. Use when users request a critical code review, want a guided…
bitwize-music-studio
Claude AI Music Skills
lyric-reviewer
Reviews lyrics against a quality checklist before Suno generation. Use before generating tracks to catch rhyme, prosody, pronunciation, and structural issues.
bitwize-music-studio
Claude AI Music Skills
promo-reviewer
Reviews and iterates on social media copy in album promo/ files. Use after populating promo templates and before release to polish platform-specific posts.
awesome-skills
Code Review Skill
code-review-skill
Provides comprehensive code review guidance for React 19, Vue 3, Angular 17+, Svelte 5, Rust, TypeScript, Java, Java 8, PHP, Ruby, Rails, Python, Django, FastAPI, Go, C#/.NET, Kotlin…
sanjay3290
AI Skills
jules
Delegate coding tasks to Google Jules AI agent for asynchronous execution. Use when user says: 'have Jules fix', 'delegate to Jules', 'send to Jules', 'ask Jules to', 'check Jules…
Prisma-Labs-Dev
Apple Skills
guide-swiftui-performance-audit
Audit and improve SwiftUI runtime performance from code review and architecture. Use for requests to diagnose slow rendering, janky scrolling, high CPU/memory usage, excessive view updates…

code-review-assistant
Triggered when the user submits code or requests a code review. Automatically analyzes code quality, identifies potential bugs, security vulnerabilities, and performance issues, and…

skillshare-code-review
Review a skillshare change before it becomes a pull request, or review an open pull request. Use this skill whenever the user asks to: review a diff, branch, commit range or PR, check a…

code-quality-reviewer
Reviews code and provides detailed quality assessment
laolaoshiren
Claude Code Skills Zh
zh-code-reviewer
中文代码审查专家 - 生成详细的中文代码审查报告
python-code-reviewer
Review, run, debug, and verify approved Python modeling code against its code plan, data contract, method decision, risk conditions, and experiment outputs, saving one compact JSON review.
matlab-code-reviewer
Review, run, debug, and verify approved MATLAB or Beita Tianyuan modeling code against its plan, data contract, method decision, compatibility constraints, and experiment outputs, saving…
ap-reviewer
Report the compatibility redirect to `ap-independent-checker`; this retired role cannot perform new work.
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers Skills
Code Review Reception
Receive and act on code review feedback with technical rigor, not performative agreement or blind implementation
code-reviewer
Detect whether approved modeling code is Python or MATLAB/Beita Tianyuan and route it to the matching reviewer using the compact named-check review contract.

dsh-code-review
审查代码改动或 PR 时使用,依据目标项目的实际需求检查正确性、生命周期、接口行为、验证证据和文档,报告有依据且可采取行动的问题。

review-implementing
Process and implement code review feedback systematically. Use when user provides reviewer comments, PR feedback, code review notes, or asks to implement suggestions from reviews.

first-principles-review
MANUAL-ONLY: challenge a product idea, design, PRD, or architecture from first principles. Use only when the user names this skill. Research first, then write a local review and PRD handoff.
lingzhi227
Agent Research Skills
paper-revision
Revise papers based on reviewer feedback. Map reviewer concerns to specific sections, apply targeted edits, run additional experiments if needed, and verify improvements. Use after…
BrianRWagner
AI Marketing Claude Code Skills
tweet-draft-reviewer
Review tweet drafts in Claude Code against 8 voice rules. Scores 1-10, breaks down every rule, and rewrites anything that scores below 7.
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
code-review
When the user asks for a code review, shares code for feedback, or says "review this", "check my code", "what's wrong with this". Also activate when reviewing a pull request or diff.
code-review-gate
Use when code has been written, before committing, or when merging a PR; also when the user says "review my code", "check before commit", "take a look at this change", "PR review", or asks…
code-review-gate-zh
写完代码、提交前或合并 PR 时使用;用户说“帮我 review”“提交前检查一下”“看看这次改动”“PR review”,或要求严格审查/合入门禁时也使用。
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers Skills
Requesting Code Review
Dispatch code-reviewer subagent to review implementation against plan or requirements before proceeding
structured-code-review
Performs a structured five-stage code review covering requirements compliance, correctness, code quality, testing, and security/performance. Each stage uses targeted checklists and…
Code review skills, explained.
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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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