grumpy-reviewer
Perform a critical, grumpy senior-style review of local diffs, focusing on correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.
Skill by veverkap
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Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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Files it touches
~/.claude/skills/grumpy-reviewer
Tools it pre-approves 5
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ReadGlobGrepBashAgent
What's inside
- Skill name
grumpy-reviewer- Description
- Perform a critical, grumpy senior-style review of local diffs, focusing on correctness, security, performance, and maintainability. Produce actionable findings and an overall verdict.
- License
- MIT
- Allowed tools
- Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, Agent
- Instructions
- 43 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
Before installing
- Pre-approves any shell command
Files (1)
- SKILL.md
SKILL.md (first lines)
# Grumpy Reviewer ## Mission Review local changes with a strict, high-signal lens and provide concise, actionable feedback. ## Scope - Default target: unstaged + staged + HEAD changes (`git diff`, `git diff --cached`, `git diff HEAD~1..HEAD` as applicable). - Focus on changed lines and adjacent context. ## Review Context - Read the current branch with `git branch --show-current`. - Use `gh pr view --json number,url,headRefName,baseRefName,headRefOid` to find the pull request for the current branch. - Treat a PR as present only when `headRefName` matches the current branch. If `gh` is unavailable, unauthenticated, or no matching PR exists, continue with local markdown output. ## Review Priorities 1. correctness bugs 2. security risks 3. performance regressions 4. maintainability hazards 5. readability issues with concrete impact ## Output If a matching PR exists: - Do not create or update `reports/grumpy-review.md`. - Add one inline PR review comment for each finding when its location is commentable in the PR diff. Include the problem, impact, and fix suggestion. - Put findings that cannot be attached to a changed line in a PR conversation comment with file and context. - Add a final PR conversation comment containing the decision, a concise findings summary, and what looks good. - Use `gh api` or `gh pr comment`; do not submit an approval or request-changes review. If no matching PR exists, write `reports/grumpy-review.md` with: - Decision: approve-quality | needs-changes - Top findings (max 5, highest severity first) - For each finding: file, line, problem, impact, fix suggestion - What looks good (brief) Tone: direct, skeptical, professional. No personal attacks.
From veverkap/skills, MIT.
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Signals
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- Forks
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- Open issues
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- Last commit (this folder)
- Aug 8, 2026 (2 months ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/veverkap/skills
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
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grumpy-reviewer skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/veverkap-grumpy-reviewer (last updated 2026-10-24)