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Code Review and Quality

Five-axis review of any change: correctness, readability, design, security, speed.

Community, verifiedby Addy OsmaniChecked October 18, 2026

Part of Addy Osmani's production engineering skills, this one reviews code before it merges. It scores a change on five axes and suggests structural fixes, whether the code came from you, a colleague or another agent.

Who it is for

  • Developers
  • Tech leads
  • Teams using AI coding agents

Prompts to try

Once the skill is installed, ask for the result in plain words. Claude picks the skill up on its own.

Prompt 1
Review my current branch before I open a pull request
Prompt 2
Do a five-axis review of this diff I pasted
Prompt 3
Check this PR from our contractor for security and readability issues

How to install it

In Claude Code

  1. npx skills add addyosmani/agent-skills --skill code-review-and-quality

In Claude.ai

Zip the skill folder and upload it under Customize > Skills > + > Create skill > Upload a skill.

Good to know

Or install all 25 skills: /plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills then /plugin install agent-skills@addy-agent-skills.

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How we checked it

Confirmed SKILL.md at skills/code-review-and-quality/SKILL.md in addyosmani/agent-skills via the GitHub API; skill folder last changed 2026-09-26, repo has 107,812 stars and was pushed 2026-10-13.

Source: github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/code-review-and-quality

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