Review

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Runs a review skill that cleans up code shape, checks the diff, and writes docs to finish off a completed change.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Review skill

About this skill

Closeout pass on a finished substantive change, sequence refactor-clean (shape), code-review (diff), and write-docs (docs) so all three run, in the order where each feeds the next. Use after implementing a slice or feature and before calling it done or committing; when the user asks for a final rev

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by dzhng/skills in skills/engineering/review/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

A finished change earns "done" only after three lenses pass: its shape, its diff, and its docs. Each has a specialist skill. This skill owns only what they can't — the order they run in, the loop between them, and one verdict.

Workflow

  1. Scope. Fix the diff under review and confirm it's substantive; skip the whole pass for trivial edits.
  2. Shape — refactor-clean. Run it first, while restructuring is cheap and before you audit a diff that's about to move.
  3. Diff — code-review. Audit the settled shape. A finding that forces a structural change sends you back to step 2, not onward.
  4. Docs — write-docs. Update the docs this change touched. Then trace the link chain from the root README down to each one: every link on the path still resolves, and the hub-to-leaf flow still reads in order.
  5. Report. One verdict across all three passes — what each found, what you changed, what you left and why. Done only when every pass is clean or resolved.

Rules

  • When you enter a pass, read its skill — the rules live there, not here.
  • Order governs presentation, not disclosure: surface a finding the moment you hit it, even when a later pass owns it.
  • Loop, don't cascade: a later fix that reopens an earlier pass returns there. Stop when a full pass adds nothing.

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Source
github.com/dzhng/skills