code-review-checklist

Systematic checklist for reviewing code across functionality, security, performance, and maintainability. Provide a systematic checklist for conducting thorough code reviews. This skill helps reviewers ensure code quality, catch bugs, identify security issues, and maintain consistency across the codebase. Before reviewing code, I'll help you understand: Check if the code works correctly: Assess code maintainability: Check for security issues: Look for performance issues: Verify test coverage: Symptoms: Code works for happy path but fails on edge cases Solution: Ask "What if...?" questions Symptoms: Code exposes security risks Solution: Use security checklist Symptoms: New code has no tests or inadequate tests Solution: Require tests for all new code Symptoms: Reviewer can't understand what code does Solution: Request improvements Pro Tip: Use a checklist template for every review to ensure consistency and thoroughness. Customize it for your team's specific needs! - Covers six review areas: context understanding, functionality verification, code quality assessment, security checks, performance analysis, and test coverage validation - Includes concrete examples of common issues (SQL injection, missing validation, unclear naming) paired with corrected versions - Provides pre-review, per-section, and git-specific checklists to ensure nothing is missed during pull request reviews -...