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context-review

review code changes with semantic search

Covers Search Engineering Code Analysis

Description

Use this skill to review code changes using semantic search to understand context and impact

SKILL.md

When to Use

  • Before committing changes to understand what you're about to commit
  • Reviewing pull requests or branches
  • Understanding the impact of changes on the rest of the codebase

Review Workflow

1. Check Current Changes

First, see what's changed:

git status
git diff                    # Unstaged changes
git diff --staged           # Staged changes
git diff main...HEAD        # All changes on current branch

2. Understand Changed Code Context

For each significantly changed file, use semantic search to understand:

  • Similar patterns: Find similar code elsewhere that might need the same change
  • Callers: Find code that calls the modified functions
  • Dependencies: Find code that the modified code depends on
# Find similar patterns
jbcontext search "<code chunk that was changed>"

# Find callers of a modified function
jbcontext search "calls to <function name> to understand impact"

# Find related test files in the "test/" directory (path must be relative to the project root)
jbcontext search -p test "tests for <feature being modified>"

3. Review Checklist

For each change, verify:

  • The change is consistent with similar patterns in the codebase
  • All callers of modified functions will still work correctly
  • Related tests exist and cover the changes
  • The change doesn't reintroduce previously fixed bugs

Example Session

# See what's changed
git diff --staged

# For a change to auth middleware, find similar patterns
jbcontext search "authentication middleware pattern"

# Find what calls this middleware
jbcontext search "uses auth middleware to protect routes"

# Find related tests
jbcontext search -p test "auth middleware test"

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