Agent Skills: review-spec

Review a spec document against codebase reality, identifying gaps and ensuring sound, robust implementations.

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Skill Metadata

Name
review-spec
Description
Review a spec document against codebase reality, identifying gaps and ensuring sound, robust implementations.

Review the given spec document by analyzing both the spec AND the referenced codebase.

Process

  1. Read the spec - Understand goals, phases, and proposed changes
  2. Explore the codebase - Read files and code mentioned in the spec
  3. Analyze patterns - Identify existing patterns, conventions, and architecture
  4. Validate the plan - Ensure proposals align with codebase reality
  5. Identify issues - Find gaps, risks, and improvement opportunities

Review Dimensions

Evaluate across these areas (focus on what's relevant):

  • Architecture: Component boundaries, data flow, API contracts, separation of concerns
  • Feasibility: Implementation complexity, technology trade-offs, effort estimation
  • Reliability: Error handling, retries, idempotency, graceful degradation
  • Performance: Bottlenecks, caching, query patterns, scaling approach
  • Security: Auth, data protection, input validation, audit logging
  • Edge Cases: Null handling, limits, timeouts, race conditions, partial failures
  • Testing: Testability, integration strategy, rollback considerations

Output Format

For each finding:

### [Finding Title]

**Category**: Architecture | Feasibility | Reliability | Performance | Security | Edge Case | Testing
**Severity**: Critical | High | Medium | Low
**Section**: [Spec section or phase]

**Issue**: [Clear problem description]
**Recommendation**: [Specific, actionable change]
**Rationale**: [Technical justification]

Guidelines

  • Verify against code - Don't trust the spec blindly; check actual implementations
  • Follow existing patterns - Recommendations should align with codebase conventions
  • Be specific - Reference exact files, functions, and line numbers
  • Prioritize - Order findings by severity and impact
  • Challenge assumptions - Question decisions that lack justification