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Use when reviewing changed or staged code, a branch, or a PR in the Handsontable monorepo across architecture, code quality, performance, and accessibility. Covers SOLID / Law of Demeter / plugin decoupling / breaking-changes policy, custom ESLint rules / JSDoc / naming / cognitive complexity, large-array and render-batching performance, and WCAG 2.1 AA + keyboard navigation. Trigger when asked to review changes, check a diff against Handsontable conventions, assess architectural correctness, spot performance regressions, or verify accessibility — and as the design lens before or while implementing any core change.

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Handsontable code review

Review staged or changed code across three dimensions: architecture, code quality, and performance + accessibility. Apply all three for a full review. For a scoped request ("just check a11y", "is this architecturally sound?"), read only the relevant dimension.

Workflow

  1. Collect the changes: git diff (or git diff --staged).
  2. Apply each dimension's checklist — read the reference file for the dimension you need:
    • Architecture — references/architecture.md: SOLID, Law of Demeter, plugin decoupling, conflict ownership, coordinate-system correctness, breaking-changes policy, convention over configuration. Also the design lens while implementing any core change, not only at review time.
    • Code quality — references/code-quality.md: custom ESLint rules, JSDoc, naming, cognitive complexity, DRY, the TypeScript boundary.
    • Performance & accessibility — references/performance-a11y.md: large-array safety, render batching, memory cleanup, WCAG 2.1 AA, keyboard navigation, ARIA semantics.
  3. Report using the output format below, applying the general review practices.

General review practices

Apply these alongside the dimension checklists. They are the durable practices from the built-in /code-review command, adapted for an in-repo review (skip its PR-commenting orchestration — the value is the review discipline).

  • Review several lenses on the diff, not just the code in isolation: AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md adherence at the correct scope, obvious bugs, the git blame and history of the modified lines, comments on prior PRs that touched these files, and guidance in nearby code comments.
  • Focus on the changed lines. Do not flag pre-existing issues, or problems on lines the change did not touch.
  • Confidence filtering — surface only what you are confident is real. For each candidate issue, judge how likely it is a genuine problem that will be hit in practice. The bar is roughly "highly confident": you verified it is real and it materially affects functionality, or it is explicitly called out in an AGENTS.md at the relevant scope. Drop low-confidence findings and likely false positives rather than padding the report — a short list of real issues beats a long list of maybes.
  • Do not flag what other tooling catches. Skip anything a linter, type-checker, or compiler would surface (missing or wrong imports, type errors, formatting, pedantic style). CI runs those separately; do not build, type-check, or run tests yourself for the review.
  • Skip nitpicks a senior engineer would not raise. Pedantic style not called out in an AGENTS.md, intentional functional changes that belong to the broader work, and issues already silenced with a documented lint-ignore are not findings.
  • Cite every finding with a file:line reference (link the file and line range when commenting on a PR).

Output format

List findings by severity:

  • Critical — breaks builds, tests, or runtime behavior.
  • High — violates an enforced ESLint rule or a mandatory convention.
  • Medium — style or maintainability concern.
  • Low — suggestion for improvement.

Each finding includes a file:line reference and a short explanation. When reporting more than one dimension, group findings under Architecture / Code quality / Performance / Accessibility headings.

If no issues are found, output exactly: No blocking issues found.