APM Review Panel

by microsoft

APM Review Panel is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

3.5K stars324 forkson microsoft/apmAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15

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Install APM Review Panel

Copy APM Review Panel into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/packages/apm-review-panel ~/.claude/skills/apm-review-panel

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: packages/apm-review-panel/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/apm-review-panel
Collection: One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What APM Review Panel does

APM Review Panel runs a fan-out panel of specialist agents to review a labelled pull request in microsoft/apm. It aggregates findings from mandatory and conditional specialists plus a CEO synthesizer, then writes one advisory recommendation comment (no verdict labels, no merge gating). Use when a non-trivial PR needs cross-cutting recommendation on architecture, CLI logging, DevX UX, supply-chain

APM Review Panel is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. APM Review Panel comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

APM Review Panel - Fan-Out Advisory Review

The panel is FAN-OUT + SYNTHESIZER. Each persona runs in its own agent thread (via the task tool) and returns JSON matching assets/panelist-return-schema.json. The orchestrator schema-validates each return, hands all returns to the apm-ceo synthesizer (also a task thread, returns JSON matching assets/ceo-return-schema.json), then renders ONE recommendation comment from assets/recommendation-template.md.

This skill is ADVISORY by design. It does not compute a binary verdict, it does not apply verdict labels, and it does not gate merge. The panel surfaces findings; the maintainer and the PR author decide ship.

Architecture invariants

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about APM Review Panel

What else does microsoft publish alongside APM Review Panel?
APM Review Panel is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Spec Guardian and APM Starter. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way APM Review Panel does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.
How does APM Review Panel compare to other Quality skills?
APM Review Panel ranks #383 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of APM Review Panel against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.