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Code Review And Quality

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Conducts multi-axis code review. Use before merging any change. Use when reviewing code written by yourself, another agent, or a human. Use when you need to assess code quality across multiple dimensions before it enters the main branch.

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Code Review and Quality

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Addy Osmani

Conducts multi-axis code review. Use before merging any change. Use when reviewing code written by yourself, another agent, or a human. Use when you need to assess code quality across multiple dimensions before it enters the main branch.

Curator’s note

Reach for this when you want a disciplined five-axis review (correctness, readability, architecture, security, performance) from someone who has seen a lot of code ship. Addy Osmani (engineering lead at Google Chrome) keeps the bar high without turning reviews into a blocker — a useful baseline to drop into any team that's letting agents write more of the diff than humans read.

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