Review Codebase
Analyzes codebase quality, identifies potential bugs, and suggests improvements based on best practices.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add review-codebase npx -- -y @trustedskills/review-codebase
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"review-codebase": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/review-codebase"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
The review-codebase skill analyzes a codebase and provides summaries of its structure, dependencies, and potential areas for improvement. It can identify common code smells, suggest refactoring opportunities, and generate documentation based on the existing code. This helps developers quickly understand unfamiliar projects or improve the quality of their own work.
When to use it
- Onboarding new team members: Quickly familiarize them with a large or complex codebase.
- Code review preparation: Generate an initial assessment before a manual code review begins.
- Refactoring planning: Identify areas in the codebase ripe for refactoring and potential improvements.
- Documentation generation: Automatically create basic documentation from existing code comments and structure.
Key capabilities
- Codebase summarization
- Dependency analysis
- Identification of code smells
- Refactoring suggestions
- Documentation generation
Example prompts
- "Summarize the architecture of this Python project."
- "Identify potential performance bottlenecks in this JavaScript codebase."
- "Generate documentation for the 'user authentication' module in this Go repository."
Tips & gotchas
The quality of the analysis depends heavily on code comments and consistent coding style. For best results, provide a well-structured and documented codebase.
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