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deep-review

Skill1 starsChanged 11 days agoMITView on GitHub

Deep, themed review of a diff: the review-diff flow and its standard lenses, plus one cheap reviewer subagent per theme, using distinctive preferences distilled from Alex North's public GitHub reviews (naming, API shape, errors, tests, coupling, and related themes). Needs the review-diff skill. Use when the user asks for a deep review, themed review, or anorth-style review.

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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

2 rules. 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 38 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 0

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 2

    Very specific

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

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Very specific:

    Run the /review-diff skill's flow with a bigger lens set.

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  2. Very specific:

    If review-diff isn't available, tell the user and stop.

    line 14

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 38 edited versions of this file we could read. “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

Deep review

Run the /review-diff skill's flow with a bigger lens set. If review-diff isn't available, tell the user and stop.

At its Lenses step, read the change set and decide which themes below are relevant. The lens set is:

  • review-diff's standard lenses, on their usual tiers, by their absolute paths in review-diff's directory;
  • each theme under Always, and each theme under When the diff matches that fits the diff, on the cheap tier. Pass the theme file's absolute path as the lens.

Everything else follows review-diff: models, launch, check, triage, fix, and report. Theme reviewers on the cheap tier are noisy, so the check step matters most for them.

Always

  • Naming — identifiers
  • Style — dead weight, constants, order, locality
  • Comments — comments, docs, stale nearby comments

When the diff matches

  • API Shape — public functions, types, endpoints, events, persisted formats
  • Architecture — modules, layers, where state or effects live
  • Change Scope — mixed features, refactors, or cleanups in one PR
  • Concurrency — shared mutable state, threads/coroutines, timers
  • Coupling — module boundaries, wiring, cross-component APIs
  • Dependencies — manifests, lockfiles, vendored or generated code, new libraries
  • CI locally — CI, build, lint, or codegen steps
  • Errors — new or changed failure paths, error types, panics
  • Invariants — validation, state transitions, persistence, aggregates
  • Observability — logs, metrics, journals, or swallowed failures
  • Tests — tests, fixtures, doubles, or test helpers

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