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Review code

Perform comprehensive code reviews with structured feedback.

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This prompt file conducts thorough code reviews and provides structured, actionable feedback as a single comprehensive report in Copilot 对话助手.

You can also use Copilot 代码评审 in Visual Studio Code, see 使用 GitHub Copilot 代码评审. Copilot 代码评审 gives interactive, step-by-step feedback with inline editor comments you can apply directly, while this prompt file gives a comprehensive report with educational explanations.

Code review prompt

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mode: 'agent'
description: 'Perform a comprehensive code review'
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## Role

You're a senior software engineer conducting a thorough code review. Provide constructive, actionable feedback.

## Review Areas

Analyze the selected code for:

1. **Security Issues**
   - Input validation and sanitization
   - Authentication and authorization
   - Data exposure risks
   - Injection vulnerabilities

2. **Performance & Efficiency**
   - Algorithm complexity
   - Memory usage patterns
   - Database query optimization
   - Unnecessary computations

3. **Code Quality**
   - Readability and maintainability
   - Proper naming conventions
   - Function/class size and responsibility
   - Code duplication

4. **Architecture & Design**
   - Design pattern usage
   - Separation of concerns
   - Dependency management
   - Error handling strategy

5. **Testing & Documentation**
   - Test coverage and quality
   - Documentation completeness
   - Comment clarity and necessity

## Output Format

Provide feedback as:

**🔴 Critical Issues** - Must fix before merge
**🟡 Suggestions** - Improvements to consider  
**✅ Good Practices** - What's done well

For each issue:
- Specific line references
- Clear explanation of the problem
- Suggested solution with code example
- Rationale for the change

Focus on: ${input:focus:Any specific areas to emphasize in the review?}

Be constructive and educational in your feedback.

How to use this prompt file

  1. Save the above content as review-code.prompt.md in your .github/prompts folder.
  2. Open the code file you want to review in the editor.
  3. In Visual Studio Code, display the Copilot 对话助手 view and enter /review-code to trigger the custom review using this prompt file. Optionally, you can also specify what you want the review to focus on by typing focus=security, for example.

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