Kamae Code Review

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Adversarial code review of server-side TypeScript for adherence to the kamae principles (discriminated unions, branded types, Result error handling, boundary validation, PII protection).

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What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by iwasa-kosui/kamae-ts in skills/kamae-review/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Adversarial review against the kamae principles. The knowledge base lives in ../kamae/; this skill links rather than duplicates.

Step 0: Load applicable rules

Before any other step, glob and Read rules in priority order:

  1. .claude/rules/*.md (project-level overrides at the working-tree root)
  2. ~/.claude/rules/*.md (user-global preferences)
  3. ../../rules/defaults/*.md relative to this SKILL.md (plugin defaults)

For each file:

  • Read the YAML frontmatter. Skip the rule unless applies-to is kamae-review or *.
  • Group by name. For each name, keep only the highest-tier instance (1 > 2 > 3); within a tier the lexicographically last filename wins.
  • A check-toggle rule with enabled: false removes the named check from the walk in step 3 below.
  • A convention rule sets project-specific expectations the review respects (e.g., a designated location for Branded Types).

If no rules are found, proceed with all checks active. See ../../rules/README.md for the rule format.

Review Procedure

  1. Load principle knowledge. Before reading any code under review, read:

    • ../kamae/SKILL.md — principle index
    • The validation library guide matching the project's package.json under ../kamae/validation-libraries/ (zod.md / valibot.md / arktype.md)
    • The Result library guide matching the project's package.json under ../kamae/result-libraries/ (neverthrow.md / byethrow.md / fp-ts.md / option-t.md)
    • Each topic file under ../kamae/ cited by the checklist sub-files you read.
  2. Read the files under review.

  3. Walk the checklist. Read each checklist sub-file in order; match findings to its items.

  4. Report findings. For each violation:

    1. Location (path:line).
    2. Why it is a problem — cite the principle (link back to ../kamae/...) and the risk of violating it.
    3. How to fix — code example showing the corrected version.
  5. Suggestions (non-violations with room for improvement) are communicated with the same format but framed as suggestions rather than findings.

Severity classes

Each checklist item is tagged High / Medium / Low.

  • High — direct cause of runtime errors or compliance violations (as, missing PII protection, missing schema validation, missing Branded Types on semantically distinct primitives).
  • Medium — invalid state representation, inconsistent error handling, missing exhaustiveness, catch-all type files, classes for domain models, domain contracts coupled to infrastructure types.
  • Low — stylistic, readability, edge-case correctness (method notation, interface for domain types, missing Readonly<>, non-kind discriminants, imperative array loops, fixtures without as const satisfies, matching schema/type duplication, misplaced ports without an outward dependency, unnecessarily broad dependency contracts). An existing schema/type mismatch is raised according to its incorrect acceptance, rejection, or data-exposure impact.

Example Finding

### Use of method notation

`src/domain/task/task-store.ts:15`

`save(task: Task): Promise<void>` uses method notation. Per
[`../kamae/SKILL.md` §1 "Use function property notation"](../kamae/SKILL.md),
parameters become bivariant under method notation, so a narrower implementation
such as `save(task: DoingTask): Promise<void>` will pass type checking at the
injection site.

Suggested fix:
\`\`\`typescript
type TaskStore = {
  save: (task: Task) => Promise<void>;
};
\`\`\`

Signals

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Sep 2026
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