Code Review Skill: Two-Axis Review That Keeps Standards and Spec Honest

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A code review that only checks “does this look clean?” misses the more expensive failure: code that follows every standard but implements the wrong thing. Matt Pocock’s Code Review skill fixes that by running two reviews in parallel — one against the repo’s coding standards, one against the originating spec — and reporting them side by side, never merged. It comes from the mattpocock/skills family (228K stars), which already powers handoff, prototype, and domain-modeling. I read the actual SKILL.md line by line, and the two-axis split is the sharpest idea in it.

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Code Review Skill: Two-Axis Review That Keeps Standards and Spec Honest