brooks-review

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brooks-review/SKILL.md

PR code review that surfaces decay risks, design smells, and maintainability issues with concrete Symptom → Source → Consequence → Remedy findings, drawing on twelve classic engineering books. Triggers when: user asks to review code, check a PR, shares a diff or pastes code asking...

Software EngineeringMIT★ 45496⑂ 6664commit 5cf4dfe

Install skillView source on GitHub

What this skill does

Brooks-Lint — PR Review

When to Use

Use this skill when you need pR code review that surfaces decay risks, design smells, and maintainability issues with concrete Symptom → Source → Consequence → Remedy findings, drawing on twelve classic engineering books. Triggers when: user asks to review code, check a PR, shares a diff or pastes code asking...

Setup

Read ../_shared/common.md for the Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, and Health Score rules
Read ../_shared/source-coverage.md for book-level coverage, exceptions, and tradeoffs
Read ../_shared/decay-risks.md for symptom definitions and source attributions
Read pr-review-guide.md in this directory for the analysis process

Process

If the user has not specified files or pasted code: apply Auto Scope Detection from ../_shared/common.md to determine the review scope before proceeding.

Understand the review scope, then scan for each decay risk in the order specified (Steps 1–6 of the guide)
Run the Quick Test Check (Step 7 of the guide) — skip for docs-only or non-production changes
Apply the Iron Law to every finding
Output using the Report Template from common.md

Mode line in report: PR Review

Limitations

Use this skill only when the task clearly matches its upstream source and local project context.
Verify commands, generated code, dependencies, credentials, and external service behavior before applying changes.
Do not treat examples as a substitute for environment-specific tests, security review, or user approval for destructive or costly actions.

Installation

Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.

Destination: .claude/skills/brooks-review · pinned to the source commit

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 5cf4dfeb13ea966daa1e117897689cd7991e3f44
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brooks-review" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Review the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.

New here? Step-by-step setup – from installing the agent to using the skill

Operating systemAgentI already use Claude Code

1
Install Git
Install Git with your package manager (Debian/Ubuntu shown; use dnf/pacman on others). Official download.
```
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git
```
2
Install Claude Code
Requires Node.js 18+. Install the CLI globally: Official docs. (command-line tool)
```
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
```

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Open a terminal and run these steps (they clone the source, check out the exact commit, and copy the skill into place):

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 5cf4dfeb13ea966daa1e117897689cd7991e3f44
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brooks-review" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Destination: .claude/skills/brooks-review

4
Use it in Claude Code
Open Claude Code in your project. It reads skills from the folder above, so brooks-review is now available. Always review the source before using it – static checks cannot prove runtime safety.

Security & Audits

Scanner static-checks@0.1.0 · commit 5cf4dfeb13ea. Static checks cannot prove runtime safety – review the source and the exact diff before installing. How checks work.

lowPath traversal reference
References parent-directory traversal, which can escape a target directory.
Evidence: ../· fingerprint fa08499e14d0113b

brooks-review

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brooks-review/SKILL.md

Software EngineeringMIT★ 45496⑂ 6664commit 5cf4dfe

Install skillView source on GitHub

What this skill does

Brooks-Lint — PR Review

When to Use

Setup

Read ../_shared/common.md for the Iron Law, Project Config, Report Template, and Health Score rules
Read ../_shared/source-coverage.md for book-level coverage, exceptions, and tradeoffs
Read ../_shared/decay-risks.md for symptom definitions and source attributions
Read pr-review-guide.md in this directory for the analysis process

Process

If the user has not specified files or pasted code: apply Auto Scope Detection from ../_shared/common.md to determine the review scope before proceeding.

Understand the review scope, then scan for each decay risk in the order specified (Steps 1–6 of the guide)
Run the Quick Test Check (Step 7 of the guide) — skip for docs-only or non-production changes
Apply the Iron Law to every finding
Output using the Report Template from common.md

Mode line in report: PR Review

Limitations

Use this skill only when the task clearly matches its upstream source and local project context.
Verify commands, generated code, dependencies, credentials, and external service behavior before applying changes.
Do not treat examples as a substitute for environment-specific tests, security review, or user approval for destructive or costly actions.

Installation

Copy a source-pinned command for your client. You run it yourself.

Destination: .claude/skills/brooks-review · pinned to the source commit

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 5cf4dfeb13ea966daa1e117897689cd7991e3f44
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brooks-review" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Review the source before running. This copies files into your project; it is not a one-click install and does not verify runtime safety.

New here? Step-by-step setup – from installing the agent to using the skill

Operating systemAgentI already use Claude Code

1
Install Git
Install Git with your package manager (Debian/Ubuntu shown; use dnf/pacman on others). Official download.
```
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y git
```
2
Install Claude Code
Requires Node.js 18+. Install the CLI globally: Official docs. (command-line tool)
```
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
```

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Open a terminal and run these steps (they clone the source, check out the exact commit, and copy the skill into place):

# Run from your project root
git clone https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills.git .skillboard-tmp
git -C .skillboard-tmp checkout 5cf4dfeb13ea966daa1e117897689cd7991e3f44
mkdir -p ".claude/skills"
cp -r ".skillboard-tmp/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/brooks-review" ".claude/skills/"
rm -rf .skillboard-tmp

Destination: .claude/skills/brooks-review

4
Use it in Claude Code
Open Claude Code in your project. It reads skills from the folder above, so brooks-review is now available. Always review the source before using it – static checks cannot prove runtime safety.

Security & Audits

Scanner static-checks@0.1.0 · commit 5cf4dfeb13ea. Static checks cannot prove runtime safety – review the source and the exact diff before installing. How checks work.

lowPath traversal reference
References parent-directory traversal, which can escape a target directory.
Evidence: ../· fingerprint fa08499e14d0113b

brooks-review

What this skill does

Brooks-Lint — PR Review

When to Use

Setup

Process

Limitations

Installation

Install Git

Install Claude Code

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Use it in Claude Code

Security & Audits

brooks-review

What this skill does

Brooks-Lint — PR Review

When to Use

Setup

Process

Limitations

Installation

Install Git

Install Claude Code

Get the skill, pinned to its exact version

Use it in Claude Code

Security & Audits