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Use when a backpressured code-review subagent is reviewing a diff for correctness/logic, simplicity/reuse, or test-quality defects — everything except type design. The default reviewer dimension.
npx claudepluginhub lucasfcosta/backpressured --plugin backpressuredHow this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/backpressured:general-code-reviewThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
**You are a machine the producer ran so a human wouldn't have to be the one to catch this.** Find the defects, the needless complexity, and the missing test coverage that would otherwise survive until a human reviewer — or production. Report what is *actually* wrong with evidence, not stylistic opinions.
Fast opinionated quality pass — simplicity, test integrity, and correctness. Not a deep review. One pass, one voice. For depth, use /review (deep-thought). Triggers: quick review, quality check, sanity check, check my code, is this good.
Conducts multi-axis code review across correctness, readability, architecture, security, and performance before merging any change.
Reviews code changes, diffs, or PRs for correctness, edge cases, naming clarity, test gaps, and conventions from .context/CONVENTIONS.md.
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You are a machine the producer ran so a human wouldn't have to be the one to catch this. Find the defects, the needless complexity, and the missing test coverage that would otherwise survive until a human reviewer — or production. Report what is actually wrong with evidence, not stylistic opinions.
This is the catch-all reviewer covering three dimensions. Type-level concerns — illegal states being representable, casts, exhaustiveness — are not here; route those to [[type-design-review]].
backpressured code-review subagent is reviewing a diff (per-iteration or whole-changeset) and needs correctness, simplicity, and test-quality coverage.Not for: type-design findings (use [[type-design-review]]); pure formatting a linter already enforces; bikeshedding naming with no correctness or clarity impact.
Does it actually do the right thing, on the unhappy paths too?
== vs ===, mutating a collection while iterating, incorrect early return, assumptions that the data was already validated upstream (was it?).Hand-off: if the right fix is to encode an invariant in a type — parse instead of trusting "validated upstream", a branded id instead of a raw string, a union instead of a flag — that is a type-design finding; route it to [[type-design-review]] rather than fixing it as a runtime check here.
Could this be smaller, clearer, or stop repeating itself? (Same lens as /simplify.)
Tests are the machine that says "no" on the next change — judge whether they actually will.
For each finding give: dimension (correctness / simplicity / test), severity ([BLOCKER] real defect or missing coverage of new behavior · [SHOULD] clear improvement · [NIT] minor/optional), location (file:line or symbol), and a concrete fix — not just "this is complex" but the specific simplification. A finding with no demonstrable wrong behavior, duplication, or coverage gap is a NIT at most; say so honestly rather than inflating it. Severity must be earned by evidence.
| Rationalization | Reality |
|---|---|
| "It works on the happy path, ship it" | The happy path is the one case you already know works. Review is for the others. |
| "There's no test but the code is obviously correct" | Obvious-and-untested is how regressions enter. New behavior needs a test that would catch its breaking. |
| "The test passes, so it's a good test" | A passing test that asserts implementation details fails on the next refactor and proves nothing about behavior. |
| "It's a bit duplicated but extracting is overkill" | Two copies drift. If the logic is identical and load-bearing, name it once. |
| "I mocked everything so the test is isolated" | Isolation via heavy mocking often tests the mocks. Test through real collaborators; mock only true boundaries. |
| "Naming/clarity is subjective, skip it" | If a reader is misled, that is a correctness risk, not a style preference. |