review-code

name	review-code
description	Code review of current git changes with an expert senior-engineer lens. Detects SOLID violations, security risks, and proposes actionable improvements. Use when performing code reviews.

SOLID Code Review

Overview

Perform a structured review of the current git changes with focus on SOLID, architecture, removal candidates, and security risks. Default to review-only output unless the user asks to implement changes.

Conventions

Read capy knowledge base conventions at shared-capy-knowledge-protocol.md.

Profile detection — the set of reference checklists loaded for a given diff — is delegated to the shared procedure at shared-profile-detection.md. The workflow below invokes it in Step 2 and uses the resulting (profile, checklist) list to drive Steps 3–4.

Required Outputs

Before declaring the review complete, verify all outputs are delivered:

• Review report presented to user
• P0/P1 systemic findings indexed as kk:review-findings (skip if no qualifying findings)
• Next steps confirmation from user

Indexing is owned by this skill — callers (e.g., $kk:implement) do NOT duplicate it.

Review Modes

Standard Mode ($kk:review-code)

Reviews code in the main conversation context. Fast, single-pass review using the workflow below.

Isolated Mode ($kk:review-code:isolated)

Delegates detection to independent reviewers that did not write the code, then annotates their findings with author context. Two parallel reviewers: a code-reviewer sub-agent and pal codereview (external model in native format). Produces a report organized by agreement level with corroborated findings highlighted.

• Cost: Higher (sub-agent + external model + annotation)
• Isolation: True — reviewers have zero authorship bias or session context
• Degradation: Graceful — if one reviewer fails, proceeds with the other; if both fail, suggests standard mode fallback
• Best for: When extra rigor is worth the cost (pre-merge, high-stakes changes)

See review-isolated.md for the isolated workflow.

Severity Levels

Level	Name	Description	Action
P0	Critical	Security vulnerability, data loss risk, correctness bug	Must block merge
P1	High	Logic error, significant SOLID violation, performance regression	Should fix before merge
P2	Medium	Code smell, maintainability concern, minor SOLID violation	Fix in this PR or create follow-up
P3	Low	Style, naming, minor suggestion	Optional improvement

Workflow

Mandatory ordering — methodology before evidence

The workflow below is strictly sequential. Do not read the diff's contents, re-read changed files, run capy_search, or begin forming findings until you have completed profile detection and loaded every resolved checklist file. Until then, your only contact with the changes is git diff --stat (filenames only) — enough to drive profile detection, but not enough to pattern-match findings.

This ordering is load-bearing, not stylistic. Reviewing from a diff before loading profile checklists is the known failure mode this skill is designed to prevent: the LLM has enough from the diff to produce plausible findings, and optimizes away the methodology if the workflow permits.

Phases (summary — the detailed procedure in review-process.md breaks presentation into three distinct numbered steps: present results, next-steps confirmation, verify outputs):

1. Scope — git diff --stat for filenames only (no content reads)
2. Detect active profiles — delegate to shared-profile-detection.md; produce the list of (profile, checklist) records
3. Load profile review indexes — for each active profile, resolve its review-code/index.md; collect always-load + filename-evaluable conditionals now; defer content-evaluable conditionals to Step 6
4. Read resolved checklists — read every (profile, checklist) file collected in Step 3 into context
5. Read the diff and re-read changed files — now, with methodology loaded; also run capy_search for kk:review-findings and kk:lang-idioms
6. Resolve content-evaluable conditional entries — for each deferred entry from Step 3, evaluate the predicate against the file content read in Step 5; load any newly-matching checklists into context
7. Apply checklists — iterate the full resolved list (Steps 3 + 6); emit findings grouped by (profile, checklist)
8. Self-check and confidence assessment
9. Index findings — capy index systemic P0/P1 patterns as kk:review-findings
10. Present results with next steps

See review-process.md for the detailed step-by-step process.

Invocation

Standard mode:

$kk:review-code

Isolated mode with independent sub-agents:

$kk:review-code:isolated