PR Reviewer Skill for Claude Code

Comprehensive GitHub Pull Request code review skill that automates data collection, analyzes against industry-standard criteria, and generates structured review files with an approval workflow.

Overview

PR Reviewer is a Claude Code skill that transforms your code review process. It automatically fetches all PR data using GitHub CLI, applies systematic analysis against industry-standard review criteria, and generates professional review documents ready for posting. The two-stage approval workflow ensures nothing is posted until you explicitly approve.

Features

• Automated Data Collection - Fetches PR metadata, diffs, comments, commits, and related issues via GitHub CLI
• Systematic Analysis - Reviews against comprehensive criteria: security, testing, maintainability, performance
• Structured Review Files - Generates detailed internal review, clean public review, and inline comment templates
• Two-Stage Approval - Nothing posts to GitHub until you explicitly approve with /send or /send-decline
• Inline Comments - Adds specific feedback directly to code lines with posting commands
• Ticket Tracking - Extracts and links JIRA/GitHub issue references
• Professional Templates - Clean, respectful review format without emojis or excessive formatting

Installation

Installing with Skilz (Recommended)

The easiest way to install this skill is using the Skilz Universal Installer:

# Install Skilz (one-time setup)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpillwaveSolutions/skilz/main/install.sh | bash

# Install this skill
skilz install SpillwaveSolutions_pr-reviewer-skill/pr-reviewer

View on the Skilz Marketplace: pr-reviewer

Manual Installation

1. Install GitHub CLI (if not already installed):

   # macOS
   brew install gh
   
   # Linux
   sudo apt install gh  # or yum, dnf, etc.
   
   # Windows
   winget install GitHub.cli
   

2. Authenticate with GitHub:

   gh auth login
   

3. Clone this skill to your Claude Code skills directory:

   cd ~/.claude/skills
   git clone https://github.com/SpillwaveSolutions/pr-reviewer-skill.git pr-reviewer
   

4. Install Python dependencies (if needed):

   cd pr-reviewer
   pip install requests  # Only needed for add_inline_comment.py
   

Quick Start

Basic PR Review

1. Fetch PR data: