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five-axis-code-review
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Five-axis code review checklist (correctness, security, readability, performance, test coverage) producing actionable comments instead of style nitpicks. Use when the user asks to review code, a diff, or a pull request.
When to use
- Use when the user asks to review code, a diff, or a pull request.
- Use when a review should stay actionable and skip style nitpicks.
When not to use
- Covers five review axes, not every quality dimension. Domain-specific correctness (financial rounding, protocol conformance, accessibility conformance) still needs its own specialist review.
- The five axes are heuristics for a human reviewer. A clean pass on the checklist does not prove the change is correct, secure, or performant.
- Security review here is a reading checklist, not a scanner. Static analysis, dependency audit and secret scanning run as separate tools.
- The skill reviews diffs; it cannot establish that requirements were met, and an empty findings list only means no finding was evidenced in the reviewed scope.
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