Will the feedback be polite or critical?

The skill adopts a blunt, technical-first persona. It avoids 'polite filler' to focus strictly on technical flaws, providing direct and honest assessments of code quality.

What is the maximum nesting level allowed?

Following the Linux kernel standards, this skill flag any code with more than 3 levels of indentation as a critical issue requiring refactoring.

What is the 'Good Taste' philosophy in programming?

Popularized by Linus Torvalds, it emphasizes using elegant data structures to eliminate special cases, minimizing nesting, and avoiding defensive 'safety nets' that hide underlying logic errors.

How does this skill handle code reviews?

It follows a structured 5-step process: defining the scope, reading the code via tools, performing a multi-point audit, providing a 'Taste Score', and offering specific refactoring examples.

Does it support specific programming languages?

Yes, while the philosophy originated in C development, these principles (single responsibility, early return, pure functions) are applicable to all modern languages including JavaScript, Python, and Go.

Code Taste Reviewer

Name: Code Taste Reviewer
Author: Microck

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开发者工具

Reviews code quality using Linus Torvalds' 'good taste' philosophy to eliminate complexity and defensive patterns.

关于

This skill transforms Claude into a blunt, high-standards technical reviewer inspired by Linus Torvalds' famous 'good taste' philosophy. It systematically evaluates your codebase to eliminate technical debt and 'smells' such as excessive nesting, defensive null-checking, post-return mutations, and redundant special cases. By enforcing strict principles like 'trusting upstream data' and 'failing fast,' the skill helps developers refactor complex logic into clean, readable, and maintainable patterns, providing a harsh but necessary technical critique focused on elegant data structures and architectural simplicity.

主要功能

Enforces a strict 3-level maximum nesting rule to ensure code readability.
Provides a 'Good Taste' rating (🟢/🟡/🔴) based on objective architectural metrics.
Eliminates defensive coding and unnecessary null-checks by trusting upstream data.
Identifies and removes post-return mutations and inefficient string concatenations.
81 GitHub stars
Generates concrete refactoring examples with side-by-side comparisons of 'current' vs 'recommended' code.

使用场景

Identifying and removing dead code, redundant fallback logic, and 'temporary' patches.
Refactoring complex legacy functions with deep branching and nested if-else statements.
Performing pre-pull request audits to ensure high architectural standards and consistency.

关于

主要功能

Enforces a strict 3-level maximum nesting rule to ensure code readability.
Provides a 'Good Taste' rating (🟢/🟡/🔴) based on objective architectural metrics.
Eliminates defensive coding and unnecessary null-checks by trusting upstream data.
Identifies and removes post-return mutations and inefficient string concatenations.
81 GitHub stars
Generates concrete refactoring examples with side-by-side comparisons of 'current' vs 'recommended' code.

使用场景

Identifying and removing dead code, redundant fallback logic, and 'temporary' patches.
Refactoring complex legacy functions with deep branching and nested if-else statements.
Performing pre-pull request audits to ensure high architectural standards and consistency.