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Staff Code Review

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: code-quality  ·  Last updated:
type:review
Staff-engineer-level code review that goes beyond correctness to evaluate architectural alignment, system-level implications, failure modes, performance, scalability, backward compatibility, observability, security, and cross-team impact. Use when reviewing a PR (URL or diff), analyzing code changes for architectural fitness, or when the user asks for a thorough/staff-level/senior review of code changes. Triggers on "review this PR", "review these changes", "staff review", "thorough code review", sharing a GitHub PR URL for review, or asking about the architectural impact of changes.

From the source SKILL.md

Review code as a staff engineer. Go beyond correctness — evaluate whether the change fits the system, handles failure gracefully, and won't create problems at scale or across teams.

What this skill does

Staff Code Review is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/staff-code-review/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when reviewing a PR (URL or diff), analyzing code changes for architectural fitness, or when the user asks for a thorough/staff-level/senior review of code changes. Triggers on "review this PR", "review these changes", "staff review", "thorough code review", sharing a GitHub PR URL for review, or asking about the architectural impact of changes.

Who uses this skill

The Staff Code Review Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/staff-code-review
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/staff-code-review/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/staff-code-review/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/staff-code-review/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/staff-code-review/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\staff-code-review\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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