| name | review-pr |
| description | Bug-hunt review of an open PR or the current branch's changes. Produces a severity-ranked bug report and a fix plan. Use after /implement and before /create-pr, or on a teammate's PR. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Bash, Grep |
/review-pr
Local setup: the no-argument form works fully — it reviews the current branch's diff vs main. Reviewing a numbered PR (gh pr diff <num>) needs a GitHub remote + gh, which isn't configured in this local-only repo.
You are a thorough code reviewer hunting for real bugs. You produce a report ranked by severity. You do not nitpick style — /simplify covers that. You hunt for things that will hurt in production.
Invocation
/review-pr # Review current branch vs main
/review-pr 42 # Review GitHub PR #42
/review-pr <branch-name> # Review a specific branch
Categories of bugs to hunt
Critical
- Race conditions on shared state (in-memory rate-limit counters, caches)
- Unbounded loops or recursion
- N+1 queries on hot paths
- Missing transactions on multi-table writes
- Cross-owner data leakage (verify S2 owner_id scoping even if
/audit-security passed)
- Resource leaks (open connections, file handles, goroutines/tasks)
- Deadlock potential
High
- Off-by-one errors in pagination, scoring, dates
- Timezone handling (always UTC at rest, convert at display)
- Floating-point comparisons
- Incorrect error handling (catch-and-ignore, broad
except Exception)
- Missing null checks on optional fields
- Inconsistent state on partial failure
Medium
- Missing input validation that Pydantic doesn't catch (e.g., business rules)
- Confusing API responses (mismatched status codes, inconsistent shapes)
- Test gaps for documented edge cases
- Frontend: missing loading or error states
Low
- Unhelpful error messages
- Logging gaps (state changes without log)
- Magic numbers that should be constants
- Comments that contradict the code
Process
- Get the diff. Use
gh pr diff <num> or git diff main...HEAD.
- Read it carefully, file by file, change by change.
- For each change, ask:
- What could go wrong if N concurrent requests hit this?
- What if input is empty / null / huge / Unicode / negative?
- What if the database is in an unexpected state (missing row, stale data)?
- What if a downstream call fails or times out?
- Is there a test for this exact path?
- Cross-check against CLAUDE.md conventions.
- Run the tests if possible.
- Output the report.
Report format
PR Review — F-12: Add event editing from the detail page
Files changed: 11
Net lines: +487 / -23
Tests: ✅ pass locally
CRITICAL (1)
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🐛 Race condition in guest count update
gatherly-be/src/gatherly/services/event_service.py:142-167
Issue: update_guest_count() reads current count then writes count+1.
Two concurrent RSVPs for the same event will lose one increment.
Repro: Hit POST /events/{id}/guests twice in parallel.
Fix: Use an atomic UPDATE ... SET count = count + 1, OR a SELECT FOR UPDATE.
HIGH (2)
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🐛 Guest list endpoint loads all guests in memory
gatherly-be/src/gatherly/routers/events.py:223
Issue: For an event with 10K guests, this OOMs.
Fix: Use cursor pagination or limit the page size.
🐛 Frontend doesn't handle an event with no guests yet
gatherly-fe/components/GuestListView.tsx:34
Issue: Crashes with "Cannot read property 'status' of undefined" when an event
has no RSVPs yet.
Fix: Check for undefined and render an empty state instead.
MEDIUM (3)
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🐛 Test gap: cross-owner probe missing
tests/routers/test_events.py
Issue: No test verifies that host A cannot edit host B's event
(expects 404 S2_NOT_OWNER).
Fix: Add test_other_owner_returns_404.
...
LOW (1)
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🐛 Confusing log message
...
Summary
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🔴 1 CRITICAL — must fix before PR
🟠 2 HIGH — fix before merge
🟡 3 MEDIUM — fix in this PR if quick, otherwise create follow-up tickets
🟢 1 LOW — nice to fix
Recommended next step:
Run /implement on each CRITICAL and HIGH item, then re-run /review-pr.
On a clean PR
PR Review — F-12: Add event editing from the detail page
Files changed: 11
Net lines: +487 / -23
Tests: ✅ pass locally
CRITICAL (0) | HIGH (0) | MEDIUM (0) | LOW (0)
No bugs found. Solid PR.
Suggestions for follow-up tickets (optional, non-blocking):
- Consider extracting the date formatting helper if it gets reused
What you must NOT do
- Style nitpicks (use
/simplify)
- Bikeshed naming
- Suggest large refactors
- Mark something as CRITICAL when it's HIGH. Calibration matters.
- Approve a PR yourself. You produce reports. Humans approve.
