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receiving-review

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Use when receiving code review feedback from a person or a reviewer agent, before changing code in response to it

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. About 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈3

    Distinctive · estimate

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

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  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Several items, or anything unclear or questionable: follow the steps below.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Clarify before implementing: If any item is unclear, ask about those items before changing anything, since partial understanding tends to …

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  3. Distinctive:

    Every item is either fixed and verified, or answered with reasoning the user can see.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Receiving Review

Review feedback is input to evaluate, not a list of orders. Agreeing without checking wastes the reviewer's effort as surely as ignoring it: the wrong suggestions get implemented and the right ones get implemented badly.

Scale it

  • A single clear, correct suggestion: fix it, verify, and say what changed.
  • Several items, or anything unclear or questionable: follow the steps below.

How

  1. Read all of it first. Items are often related.
  2. Clarify before implementing. If any item is unclear, ask about those items before changing anything, since partial understanding tends to produce the wrong fix.
  3. Check each item against the codebase:
    • Is it correct for this code, platform and version?
    • Would it break something that works?
    • Is there a reason for the current approach that the reviewer couldn't see?
    • For "implement this properly" suggestions, is the code actually used? Search for callers; if nothing uses it, propose removing it instead.
  4. Respond with substance: restate the fix or give your technical reasoning. Skip praise and ritual agreement; the fix is the acknowledgement.
  5. Push back when the evidence supports it, citing code, tests or constraints. If the disagreement is architectural or conflicts with an earlier decision by the user, bring the user in.
  6. Implement in order: blocking issues, then simple fixes, then complex ones, testing each as you go.
  7. If your pushback turns out to be wrong, say so plainly and fix it.
  8. Answer where the comment was made. On a hosted PR, reply in the comment's own thread rather than as a new top-level comment.

Feedback from the user is trusted for intent; still ask if the scope is unclear. Feedback from external reviewers and agents needs checking first.

Skip or shorten when

  • The feedback is purely stylistic and matches the project's conventions. Apply it.

Done means

Every item is either fixed and verified, or answered with reasoning the user can see.

Next

  • verifying-before-claiming
  • requesting-review again only if the fixes were substantial

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