Agent skill

Engineering Review Feedback

by agentara in agentara/skills

A skill your agent uses when handling code review feedback as the change author, addressing reviewer comments, drafting replies, resolving disagreements, or summarizing updates.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Engineering Review Feedback

skills CLI
$ npx skills add agentara/skills --skill engineering-review-feedback -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install agentara/skills engineering-review-feedback --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentara/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/engineering/engineering-review-feedback .claude/skills/engineering-review-feedback && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
engineering-review-feedback
GitHub stars
600
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
385 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
20
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when handling code review feedback as the change author, addressing reviewer comments, drafting replies, resolving disagreements, or summarizing updates.

  • Works in 6 steps: Pause before responding if the comment… → Identify what the reviewer is asking for. → Classify each comment → …
  • Handling code review feedback as the change author
  • SKILL.md covers Response Workflow, When You Agree, When You Need Clarification and When You Disagree, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Engineering Review Feedback is an agent skill from agentara/skills. Use when handling code review feedback as the change author, addressing reviewer comments, drafting replies, resolving disagreements, or summarizing updates. TRIGGER on "address review feedback", "respond to this review comment", "reviewer asked", "I disagree with reviewer", "what should I reply?", or "apply PR comments". If role is unclear, ask reviewer or author. DO NOT TRIGGER for reviewer comment writing, full code review, or PR descriptions unless author-response behavior is requested.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Pull requests and Code review. The repository describes itself as: Original and practical skills for AI builders. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Handling code review feedback as the change author
  • Addressing reviewer comments
  • Drafting replies
  • Resolving disagreements

Example prompts

  • “address review feedback”
  • “respond to this review comment”
  • “reviewer asked”
  • “/engineering-review-feedback”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Pause before responding if the comment feels frustrating.
  2. Identify what the reviewer is asking for.
  3. Classify each comment
  4. Prefer improving the artifact over explaining in the review tool.
  5. Run the relevant verification.
  6. Reply with what changed, why, and how it was tested.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 950e1bf. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • google.github.io

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Engineering Review Feedback loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 131 tokens; SKILL.md has 385 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~131
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from agentara/skills at commit 950e1bf, republished under its MIT licence (© agentara). 385 words, ~1,029 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/engineering-review-feedback/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
engineering-review-feedback
description
Use when handling code review feedback as the change author, addressing reviewer comments, drafting replies, resolving disagreements, or summarizing updates. TRIGGER on "address review feedback", "respond to this review comment", "reviewer asked", "I disagree with reviewer", "what should I reply?", or "apply PR comments". If role is unclear, ask reviewer or author. DO NOT TRIGGER for reviewer comment writing, full code review, or PR descriptions unless author-response behavior is requested.

Engineering Review Feedback

Handle reviewer feedback as collaboration toward better code. The best response often changes the code, tests, or comments so future readers benefit, rather than explaining only inside the review thread.

Adapted from Google Engineering Practices Documentation, especially "How to handle reviewer comments." Source: https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/handling-comments.html. License: CC-BY 3.0.

Response Workflow

  1. Pause before responding if the comment feels frustrating.
  2. Identify what the reviewer is asking for.
  3. Classify each comment:
    • Code change required.
    • Test change required.
    • Documentation or comment change required.
    • Clarification needed.
    • Disagreement to discuss.
    • Non-blocking suggestion.
  4. Prefer improving the artifact over explaining in the review tool.
  5. Run the relevant verification.
  6. Reply with what changed, why, and how it was tested.

If a reviewer says they do not understand the code, first try to make the code clearer. Add a code comment only when the why cannot be expressed cleanly in code.

When You Agree

Use a short response and make the change.

text
Done. I renamed the helper to describe normalization rather than validation and updated the two call sites.

Tested with: npm test -- user-profile.test.ts

When You Need Clarification

Ask for the missing decision or constraint. Avoid defensive wording.

text
I want to make sure I understand the concern. Are you asking for this to reject duplicate requests at the API boundary, or for the worker to make duplicate processing idempotent?

When You Disagree

Disagree by comparing tradeoffs, not by rejecting the person.

text
I chose X because it keeps the retry policy in one place and avoids a second queue state. My concern with Y is that it makes cancellation observable in two different layers.

If you think Y better serves the rollback requirement, I can switch to it. Is that the tradeoff you want prioritized?

If the reviewer provides better technical reasoning, accept it and adjust. If neither side can converge, move to a higher-bandwidth conversation and summarize the decision back in the review.

Show full SKILL.md (170 more words)Show less

When Feedback Is Not Constructive

Do not reply in kind. Extract any technical concern that can be addressed in code, tests, or docs. If the comment is hostile, vague, or repeatedly unproductive, move to a private or higher-bandwidth conversation, involve a lead when needed, and summarize only the technical decision back in the review.

Fix the Right Place

  • Confusing expression: simplify or rename it.
  • Hidden invariant: encode it in types, validation, assertions, or a focused comment.
  • Missing behavior confidence: add or improve tests.
  • Missing context: update the PR description, code comment, README, or design doc.
  • Reviewer misunderstanding caused by stale diff: rebase, remove dead code, or update the description.
  • Pure preference: ask whether it is required; otherwise treat as optional.

Summary Reply Template

markdown
Addressed this round:
- Changed ...
- Added/updated tests for ...
- Clarified ...

Verification:
- `...`

Open:
- ...

Common Mistakes

  • Replying in anger or with sarcasm.
  • Explaining confusing code only in the review thread.
  • Treating every reviewer suggestion as mandatory without clarifying severity.
  • Saying "will clean up later" when the current change introduces the complexity.
  • Making broad unrelated refactors while addressing a narrow review comment.

© agentara, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/engineering/engineering-review-feedback of agentara/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 950e1bf

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Questions about Engineering Review Feedback

What does Engineering Review Feedback do?

A skill your agent uses when handling code review feedback as the change author, addressing reviewer comments, drafting replies, resolving disagreements, or summarizing updates. Engineering Review Feedback is an agent skill from agentara/skills. Use when handling code review feedback as the change author, addressing reviewer comments, drafting replies, resolving disagreements, or summarizing updates.

When should I use Engineering Review Feedback?

Engineering Review Feedback fits situations like: handling code review feedback as the change author; addressing reviewer comments; drafting replies; resolving disagreements.

How do I install Engineering Review Feedback in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add agentara/skills --skill engineering-review-feedback -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/engineering/engineering-review-feedback in agentara/skills) into .claude/skills/engineering-review-feedback in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Engineering Review Feedback in Codex?

Run `npx skills add agentara/skills --skill engineering-review-feedback -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/engineering/engineering-review-feedback in agentara/skills) into .agents/skills/engineering-review-feedback in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Engineering Review Feedback in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add agentara/skills --skill engineering-review-feedback -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/engineering-review-feedback, .gemini/skills/engineering-review-feedback, .github/skills/engineering-review-feedback and .opencode/skills/engineering-review-feedback in your project.

What does Engineering Review Feedback need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Engineering Review Feedback is instructions for the agent only.

Does Engineering Review Feedback access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: google.github.io. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Engineering Review Feedback safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Engineering Review Feedback use?

Engineering Review Feedback is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Engineering Review Feedback use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Engineering Review Feedback?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Engineering Review Feedback: PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars), Understand Diff Analysis (Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, 86k stars), WooCommerce Code Review (woocommerce/woocommerce, 11k stars) and Open Code Review CLI (alibaba/open-code-review, 44k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Engineering Review Feedback?

agentara (a GitHub organization) maintains it in agentara/skills, which has 600 GitHub stars. The repository holds 20 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

Source: agentara/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.