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Code Review Excellence

Transform code reviews from gatekeeping to knowledge sharing through constructive feedback, systematic analysis, and collaborative improvement.

●Reviewing pull requests and code changes

●Establishing code review standards

●Mentoring developers through review feedback

●Auditing for correctness, security, or performance

●There are no code changes to review

●The task is a design-only discussion without code

●You need to implement fixes instead of reviewing

●Read context, requirements, and test signals first.

●Review for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.

●Provide actionable feedback with severity and rationale.

●Ask clarifying questions when intent is unclear.

●If detailed checklists are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

●High-level summary of findings

●Issues grouped by severity (blocking, important, minor)

●Suggestions and questions

●Test and coverage notes

●resources/implementation-playbook.md for detailed review patterns and templates.

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