Code Review Prompts

Prompt LLMs to find real review issues instead of style noise.

30 min

3 sections

code-review

quality

pull-requests

01. Prioritize severity

Section 1 of 3

A useful review prompt tells the model to lead with bugs, security issues, performance regressions, and missing tests. Style feedback should be secondary unless the codebase has explicit style rules.

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Review this diff as a senior engineer.

Priority order:
1. Correctness bugs
2. Security and privacy risks
3. Data loss or migration risks
4. Performance regressions
5. Missing tests for changed behavior

Output only actionable findings with file, line, severity, and fix suggestion.
If there are no findings, say so and list residual test risk.

Debugging and Error Analysis

Refactoring and Migration Prompts

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