Refine reviewing-changes skill to eliminate verbosity and praise

[SaintPatrck]

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📔 Objective

Refines the reviewing-changes skill to address verbosity and excessive complimentary feedback identified in recent PR
reviews. The skill was generating 800+ token summaries with multiple sections (Strengths, Recommendations, Test
Coverage Status, Architecture Compliance) and creating praise-only inline comments that cluttered PR conversations
without providing actionable feedback.

Key improvements:

• Mandates <details> tags for all inline comments - only severity + one-line description visible, all details
  collapsed
• Eliminates praise-only comments - explicit prohibition against creating inline comments solely for positive feedback
• Simplifies summary format - scales with PR complexity (simple PRs = 3-5 lines, complex PRs = add brief context
  paragraph)
• Adds thread detection - new Step 1 checks existing PR comments to prevent duplicate findings when re-reviewing
• Consolidates examples file - reduced from ~7,570 to ~1,700 tokens (77% reduction) by removing redundant format
  guidance that duplicated SKILL.md content
• Aligns format - resolves contradiction between SKILL.md and examples, both now use summary + inline comments
  approach
• Updates severity prefixes - hybrid emoji + text format (⚠️ CRITICAL, 📋 IMPORTANT, 💡 SUGGESTED, ❓ QUESTION) for
  visual scanning + searchability

Impact: Reviews will be more concise, focused exclusively on actionable issues, visually cleaner in PR conversations,
and avoid spamming duplicate comments on re-reviews. Net reduction of 3,500 tokens (13%) in total skill context while
maintaining comprehensive review capability.

⏰ Reminders before review

• Contributor guidelines followed
• All formatters and local linters executed and passed
• Written new unit and / or integration tests where applicable
• Protected functional changes with optionality (feature flags)
• Used internationalization (i18n) for all UI strings
• CI builds passed
• Communicated to DevOps any deployment requirements
• Updated any necessary documentation (Confluence, contributing docs) or informed the documentation team

🦮 Reviewer guidelines

• 👍 (:+1:) or similar for great changes
• 📝 (:memo:) or ℹ️ (:information_source:) for notes or general info
• ❓ (:question:) for questions
• 🤔 (:thinking:) or 💭 (:thought_balloon:) for more open inquiry that's not quite a confirmed issue and could potentially benefit from discussion
• 🎨 (:art:) for suggestions / improvements
• ❌ (:x:) or ⚠️ (:warning:) for more significant problems or concerns needing attention
• 🌱 (:seedling:) or ♻️ (:recycle:) for future improvements or indications of technical debt
• ⛏ (:pick:) for minor or nitpick changes

[claude]

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Review Complete

Overall Assessment: APPROVE

This PR successfully refines the reviewing-changes skill to eliminate verbosity and praise-only feedback. The changes align perfectly with the stated objectives and deliver measurable improvements in token efficiency and output clarity.

Key Improvements Validated:

• ✅ Mandated <details> tags for all inline comments (SKILL.md:147-161)
• ✅ Explicit prohibition of praise-only comments (SKILL.md:137-143)
• ✅ Simplified summary format that scales with PR complexity (SKILL.md:187-204)
• ✅ Added thread detection as Step 1 to prevent duplicate comments (SKILL.md:13-51)
• ✅ Consolidated examples file from ~7,570 to ~1,700 tokens (77% reduction)
• ✅ Aligned format between SKILL.md and examples (both use summary + inline comments)
• ✅ Updated severity prefixes to hybrid emoji + text format (SKILL.md:211-215)
• ✅ Removed redundant sections from checklist files (infrastructure.md, ui-refinement.md)

Token Reduction Impact:

• Examples file: 645 lines removed, 227 lines added (net -418 lines)
• Total skill context: ~3,500 token reduction (13% decrease) as claimed
• Format guidance consolidated, eliminating duplication between files

Pattern Consistency:
The changes maintain internal consistency across all skill files. The anti-patterns section (SKILL.md:224-243) effectively demonstrates what to avoid, reinforcing the new concise approach.

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[codecov]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 84.96%. Comparing base (aceb96d) to head (d09e28f).
⚠️ Report is 1 commits behind head on main.

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[github-actions]

Checkmarx One – Scan Summary & Details – d6c53a7a-9788-470b-b349-49dfa85f454e

Great job! No new security vulnerabilities introduced in this pull request