How I Turned a Bespoke Code Reviewer Into a Skill Any Project Can Use

The review layer in Code Genie works. The problem is it's hardwired — the criteria, the persona, the output format are all written specifically for that project. Every new project that wants the same quality gate has to rebuild it from scratch. That's not a system, that's a copy-paste habit. Here's how I extracted it into a reusable Skill. The Problem With Bespoke Logic Here's what the Code Genie reviewer looks like in its original form: reviewer = Agent ( role = " Senior Code Reviewer " , goal = """ Review code critically and objectively. Identify bugs, edge cases, convention violations, and anything that would fail in production. Do not give the benefit of the doubt. """ , backstory = """ You are a senior engineer with high standards and low tolerance for sloppy code. You ' ve seen too many production incidents caused by code that looked fine in review. You are thorough, specific, and direct. """ , llm = llm , verbose = True ) review_task = Task ( description = """ Review the followi