What it does
review-with-coding-standards reviews a pull request against your distilled coding standards: every changed file is checked against the docs its maps route to, and every finding carries a doc#rule citation. Nothing is posted to GitHub without your explicit, per-comment approval — the deliverable is a report of ready-to-post comments, and posting is a separate step.
The PR’s existing review threads become hot zones: the places human attention already went get the closest look, and each thread gets a verdict — covered by a rule, uncovered (a legitimate point no rule addresses), or already resolved by the diff.
When to reach for it
- Invocation mode. You invoke this by typing
/review-with-coding-standards— the agent won’t reach for it on its own. - Trigger boundary. Reach for it to review a PR through the lens of the standards. To apply the standards to code you’re writing right now, use apply-coding-standards; a review without a standards structure is a plain code review, not this skill.
Prerequisites
A standards structure to review against — resolved exactly as apply-coding-standards resolves it — plus an authenticated gh CLI. It reads the PR from a fetched ref, so your working tree stays on your own branch.
Hot zones and the uncovered list
The two-pass shape is the point: the broad pass grounds every finding in a citation, and the hot-zone pass turns existing human comments into a test of the standards themselves. Every uncovered verdict — a real point no rule covers — is a candidate for amend-coding-standards or the next distill run, so reviewing PRs continuously sharpens the rulebook.
It’s working if
- Every finding cites a rule you can open; opinions without citations didn’t make the report.
- Every existing thread carries a covered / uncovered / resolved verdict.
- Nothing appeared on GitHub except comments you individually approved.
Where it fits
A chain step in the coding-standards flow, on the reviewing side: apply-coding-standards enforces the rules while writing, this skill enforces them while reviewing, and its uncovered findings feed amend-coding-standards and distill-coding-standards. For the map of the whole set, see ask-eddy.