Structured PR Review

Structured PR code review with layered analysis and severity tiers. Two modes: (1) Giving reviews — walk through security, correctness, conventions, IaC, and testing layers, then produce a verdict with MUST FIX / SHOULD FIX / SUGGESTION. (2) Addressing reviews — respond to reviewer comments, fix code, reply to every thread, resolve conversations. Uses only `gh` CLI — no external dependencies. Use when: reviewing a PR, giving feedback, checking code quality, addressing review comments, fixing reviewer feedback, resolving PR threads.

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Install

openclaw skills install structured-pr-review

Structured PR Review

Two modes: giving reviews and addressing review comments. No external dependencies — uses gh CLI only.

Giving Reviews

When asked to review or check a PR:

  1. Fetch the PR details and full diff
  2. Walk through each review layer in order (see references/review-layers.md):
    • Security — secrets, injection, auth, exposure
    • Correctness — logic errors, edge cases, error handling
    • Conventions — team standards (customize via references/conventions.md)
    • IaC — Terraform/CloudFormation checks (customize via references/iac-checklist.md)
    • Testing — coverage, new code has tests
  3. Produce a structured verdict with severity tiers

Key principles:

  • Be direct — "this approach has problems" beats "interesting choice"
  • Every issue includes what to fix, not just what's wrong
  • Acknowledge what the PR does well
  • When in doubt on severity, go one level lower

See references/review-layers.md for the full framework and verdict format.

Addressing Review Comments

When asked to address, fix, or respond to PR feedback:

  1. Fetch all review comments (inline + review-level)
  2. Fix each issue or document why not
  3. Reply to every comment — none left unacknowledged
  4. Resolve threads, update PR description, push

See references/addressing-workflow.md for the step-by-step workflow.

Key rules:

  • Never leave comments unacknowledged — reply to every one
  • Always update the PR description after making changes
  • Verify the PR is actually merged before closing linked issues

Customization

This skill ships with generic review layers. Customize for your team:

  • references/conventions.md — coding conventions, commit format, naming rules. Ships with common defaults — customize for your team.
  • references/iac-checklist.md — add your IaC-specific checks (required tags, allowed regions, provider pins). Ships with common Terraform patterns — extend for your org.

References

Works Well With

  • terraform-skill (antonbabenko) — Terraform authoring best practices, module patterns, testing strategies
  • conventional-commits — commit message format conventions (useful when addressing reviews)
  • github (built-in) — general gh CLI operations for PRs, issues, and CI runs
  • gh-issues (built-in) — automated PR monitoring and review spawning