Code Review Patterns

Code Review Patterns is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by a5c-ai in babysitter.

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Install Code Review Patterns

Copy Code Review Patterns 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/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/library/methodologies/cc10x/skills/code-review-patterns ~/.claude/skills/code-review-patterns

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/a5c-ai/babysitter.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: library/methodologies/cc10x/skills/code-review-patterns/SKILL.md in a5c-ai/babysitter
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/code-review-patterns
Collection: One of 36 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Code Review Patterns does

Code Review Patterns assesses code for security, quality, performance, and maintainability, with confidence-gated findings and a required router contract. Use it during build, debug, or full review workflows.

Code Review Patterns is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Code Review Patterns comes from a repository tagged agent-orchestration, agent-skills, agentic-ai, agentic-workflow and ai-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Injection vulnerabilities (SQL, XSS, command)
Authentication and authorization patterns
Secrets handling (no hardcoded credentials)
Input validation and sanitization

Quality (weight: 25%)

Naming conventions and consistency
Code structure (SRP, cohesion, coupling)
Error handling completeness
Type safety (no any escapes)

Performance (weight: 20%)

Algorithmic complexity (flag O(n^2) or worse)
Resource and memory leaks
Database query efficiency (N+1)
Caching opportunities

Maintainability (weight: 25%)

Documentation (JSDoc/TSDoc for public APIs)
Test coverage adequacy
Readability (function length, nesting depth)
Tech debt markers (TODO, FIXME)

Confidence Gating

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

Frequently asked about Code Review Patterns

What else does a5c-ai publish alongside Code Review Patterns?
Code Review Patterns is one of 36 skills that DirSkills catalogs from a5c-ai/babysitter, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Dispatch, Architecture Design and Architecture Patterns. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Code Review Patterns does, and is maintained by a5c-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the a5c-ai/babysitter page.
How does Code Review Patterns compare to other Quality skills?
Code Review Patterns ranks #618 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 Code Review Patterns against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.