#code review#review feedback#code quality#refactor#verification

Receiving Code Review

Independent PiSkill directory guide. The original skill remains hosted by Superpowers.

What is Receiving Code Review?

Helps agents evaluate code-review feedback technically before implementing it, verify suggestions against the codebase, and avoid blindly accepting incorrect or incomplete review comments.

What does Receiving Code Review do?

Receiving Code Review is a Superpowers skill for handling review feedback as technical input that must be understood and verified, not as instructions to accept automatically. It helps an AI coding agent evaluate whether a suggestion is correct for the codebase before changing implementation.

Who is Receiving Code Review best for?

  • Developers using AI to process pull-request feedback
  • Teams that want technical verification before applying reviewer suggestions
  • Agents working with ambiguous or conflicting review comments
  • Projects where maintaining existing behavior matters during refactoring

Common use cases

  • Check whether a review comment actually applies to the current code
  • Ask for clarification when feedback is ambiguous
  • Test a proposed change before accepting it
  • Reject technically incorrect feedback with evidence

How does Receiving Code Review work?

The workflow reads the review comment, checks it against the code and requirements, identifies uncertainty and then decides whether to implement, clarify or challenge the suggestion. It prioritizes technical correctness over performative agreement.

Key benefits

  • Reduces blind acceptance of incorrect review suggestions
  • Encourages evidence-based responses to feedback
  • Helps preserve project-specific constraints
  • Useful for AI agents that might otherwise over-comply with reviewer wording

Things to know

  • The process still depends on the agent having enough project context
  • Disagreement should be explained clearly rather than becoming adversarial
  • Some review comments are preference or product decisions and may require a human owner

Compatible tools

Claude CodeOpenAI CodexGitHub CopilotGemini CLI

Frequently asked questions

Should an AI agent automatically accept code-review feedback?
No. This skill tells the agent to verify feedback against the code and requirements before implementing it.
What happens when review feedback is unclear?
The workflow recommends clarifying the comment rather than guessing what the reviewer intended.
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