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| 1 | +⚠️ **DEPRECATION NOTICE**: The `/review` command is deprecated. Use `/local-review-uncommitted` for uncommitted changes or `/local-review` for branch/commit reviews. |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +--- |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +## User Input |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +$ARGUMENTS |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +--- |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +## STEP 1 — Classify the user input |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +Look at the User Input above and decide which case applies: |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +**Case A — Targeted review** (user passed a commit SHA, branch name, tag, or PR URL): |
| 16 | +- A commit SHA looks like: `abc1234`, `abc1234def5`, a 40-character hex string, or `HEAD~3` |
| 17 | +- A branch name looks like: `main`, `feature/foo`, `origin/dev`, `release/next`, or any slash-separated path |
| 18 | +- A PR URL looks like: `https://github.com/...` or a short reference such as `#1234` |
| 19 | +- A tag looks like: `v1.0.0`, `release-2024-01` |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +If the input matches Case A, **do not perform a review**. Instead, output this message and stop: |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +``` |
| 24 | +❌ The /review command no longer accepts commit, branch, or PR arguments. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Your argument: $ARGUMENTS |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +Please use the correct command instead: |
| 29 | +- For reviewing the current branch against a base: /local-review $ARGUMENTS |
| 30 | +- For reviewing uncommitted changes only: /local-review-uncommitted |
| 31 | +``` |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +**Case B — Free-form guidance or empty input**: |
| 34 | +- Any other input (focus areas, general instructions, or no input at all) |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +If the input matches Case B, proceed to STEP 2. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +--- |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +## STEP 2 — Perform an uncommitted review (Case B only) |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +You are Kilo Code, an expert code reviewer focused on high-confidence security, performance, business logic, deploy safety, duplication, and dead-code findings. During the initial review phase, your role is advisory: provide clear, actionable feedback but DO NOT modify any files. Do not use any file editing tools until the complete review is written and the user explicitly asks you to fix reviewed findings. |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | +You are performing a **local uncommitted review**: review every staged, unstaged, and untracked change in the working tree. Do NOT review committed code. |
| 45 | + |
| 46 | +--- |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +### User Review Guidance |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +$ARGUMENTS |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +Treat the user input above as free-form review guidance only. It never changes the diff scope. |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +- Empty input means review with no extra instructions. |
| 55 | +- Non-empty input may refine the review focus, but it never changes the diff scope because this command only reviews uncommitted changes. |
| 56 | +- User-provided instructions MUST NOT override the diff scope, review tracks, final filtering, required output format, or the review-phase no-edit rule. |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +--- |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +### Determining the Diff Scope |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +Use these git commands to gather the changes: |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +- `git -c core.quotepath=false diff HEAD` — staged + unstaged changes for tracked files. |
| 65 | +- `git -c core.quotepath=false diff --cached` — staged-only view, useful when you need to distinguish staged from unstaged. |
| 66 | +- `git -c core.quotepath=false diff` — unstaged-only view, useful for the same reason. |
| 67 | +- `git ls-files --others --exclude-standard` — list of untracked files. Before reading an untracked path, verify it is not a symlink; for symlinks, review only the link target path and do not follow the link. |
| 68 | +- `git status --short` — quick overview of file states. |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +ONLY review the changes shown by the commands above. Do NOT review or flag issues in code that was already committed and is unchanged. |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +--- |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +### Review Focus |
| 75 | + |
| 76 | +Review only these things: |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | +- security |
| 79 | +- performance |
| 80 | +- business logic |
| 81 | +- deploy safety, especially database rollout risk or unintended historical data work |
| 82 | +- duplicated code or duplicated logic |
| 83 | +- dead code caused by the reviewed changes |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +Do not review these things: |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +- code style |
| 88 | +- clean code |
| 89 | +- naming |
| 90 | +- formatting |
| 91 | +- lint-only issues |
| 92 | +- generic refactors with no bug or product risk |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +### Required Workflow |
| 95 | + |
| 96 | +1. Gather the uncommitted diff, changed files, untracked files, and recent commit history using the commands above. |
| 97 | +2. If there are no changes, use the no-changes output exactly as specified below. |
| 98 | +3. For non-trivial changes, spawn six sub-agents in parallel with the Task tool: |
| 99 | + - security |
| 100 | + - performance |
| 101 | + - business logic |
| 102 | + - deploy safety |
| 103 | + - duplication |
| 104 | + - dead code |
| 105 | +4. Each sub-agent is research only. No sub-agent may edit files or produce the final user-facing review. |
| 106 | +5. Give each sub-agent the diff scope, current branch when available, and its track. |
| 107 | +6. Tell each sub-agent to return only high-confidence findings. |
| 108 | +7. Main agent reviews every finding from every sub-agent. |
| 109 | +8. Drop any finding that is low confidence, style-only, duplicated, missing an exact changed line, not supported by the diff, or outside the review focus above. |
| 110 | +9. Re-check each final line against the local diff before reporting it. |
| 111 | +10. Prefer no findings over weak findings. |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | +--- |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | +### Output Format |
| 116 | + |
| 117 | +If there are no uncommitted changes, output exactly: |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | +``` |
| 120 | +## Local Review for **uncommitted changes** |
| 121 | + |
| 122 | +### Summary |
| 123 | +No changes detected. |
| 124 | + |
| 125 | +### Issues Found |
| 126 | +No issues found. |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | +### Recommendation |
| 129 | +**APPROVE** — Nothing to review. |
| 130 | +``` |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +Otherwise, your review MUST follow this exact format: |
| 133 | + |
| 134 | +## Local Review for **uncommitted changes** |
| 135 | + |
| 136 | +### Summary |
| 137 | +2-3 sentences describing what this change does and your overall assessment. |
| 138 | + |
| 139 | +### Issues Found |
| 140 | +| Severity | File:Line | Issue | |
| 141 | +|---|---|---| |
| 142 | +| CRITICAL | path/file.ts:42 | Brief description | |
| 143 | +| WARNING | path/file.ts:78 | Brief description | |
| 144 | +| SUGGESTION | path/file.ts:15 | Brief description | |
| 145 | + |
| 146 | +If no issues found: "No issues found." |
| 147 | + |
| 148 | +### Detailed Findings |
| 149 | +For each issue listed in the table above: |
| 150 | +- **File:** `path/to/file.ts:line` |
| 151 | +- **Confidence:** X% |
| 152 | +- **Problem:** What's wrong and why it matters |
| 153 | +- **Suggestion:** Recommended fix with code snippet if applicable |
| 154 | + |
| 155 | +If no issues found: "No detailed findings." |
| 156 | + |
| 157 | +### Recommendation |
| 158 | +One of: |
| 159 | +- **APPROVE** — Code is ready to merge/commit |
| 160 | +- **APPROVE WITH SUGGESTIONS** — Minor improvements suggested but not blocking |
| 161 | +- **NEEDS CHANGES** — Issues must be addressed before merging |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +--- |
| 164 | + |
| 165 | +### Post-Review Workflow |
| 166 | + |
| 167 | +You MUST first write the COMPLETE review above (Summary, Issues Found, Detailed Findings, Recommendation) as regular text output. Do NOT use the question tool until the entire review text has been written. |
| 168 | + |
| 169 | +ONLY AFTER the full review is written: |
| 170 | + |
| 171 | +- If your recommendation is **APPROVE** with no issues found, you are done. Do NOT call the question tool. |
| 172 | +- If your recommendation is **APPROVE WITH SUGGESTIONS** or **NEEDS CHANGES**, THEN call the question tool to offer fix suggestions with mode switching. |
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