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.
22 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…
321k33MScore 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…
321k33MScore 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…
316k3.9MScore 90 - 4#4
Jesse Vincent
Superpowers
Requesting Code Review
Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements
316k3.9MScore 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…
115k1.8MScore 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".
119k4.8MScore 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…
42k2.6MScore 84 - 8#8
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.
41k2.4MScore 83 - 9#9
Imbad0202
Academic Research Skills
Imbad0202
Academic 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…
56k38kScore 78 - 10#10
Jeffallan
Claude Skills
Jeffallan
Code 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…
12k457kScore 75
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 22 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…
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.
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…
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…
wanshuiyin
Auto Claude Code Research In Sleep
wanshuiyinkill-argument
Two-thread adversarial review: a fresh reviewer constructs the strongest 200-word rejection memo, then a second fresh reviewer defends the paper point-by-point and surfaces still-unresolved…
alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanics-karpathy-reviewer
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alirezarezvani
Claude Skills
alirezarezvanics-wiki-linter
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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…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aicontract-intelligence-workflow-reviewer-carl-ditzler
Contract intelligence and contract operations workflow skill for Claude and Codex. Guides the full contract lifecycle review process from intake and playbook normalization through clause…
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…
lawve-ai
Awesome Legal Skills
lawve-aicase-briefer
Produces detailed law-school case briefs of United States judicial opinions in a fixed nine-section structure: memory jogger, facts, procedural history, judicial votes, holding…
shawnpang
Startup Founder Skills
shawnpangcode-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 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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