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post-work-review

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Use after completing implementation work to catch AGENTS.md violations, dead code, and issues missed during development. Run before showing results to the user.

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  2. Copy the prompt below and paste it into your agent.
  3. Review the proposed files and risks before you approve installation.
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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/s4wave/spacewave/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/post-work-review/SKILL.md

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Post-Work Review

Review your diff against AGENTS.md rules and fix violations before presenting work.

Process

  1. Run git diff HEAD (or appropriate base) to see all changes
  2. Read AGENTS.md fully -- the rules section is authoritative
  3. For each changed file, check every rule that applies
  4. Fix violations directly -- do not just report them
  5. Re-run type check (npx tsc --noEmit or go build ./...)

High-Signal Checks

These are the violations most commonly introduced under time pressure:

CheckRuleHow to spot
Type castsAVOID as statementsgrep for as in diff
Any typesAVOID any typegrep for : any or as any
Let bindingsAVOID let statementsgrep for let in diff
Else branchesDO NOT use else unless necessarygrep for } else
Dead codeDelete unused code when changing thingscheck if old code is still referenced
String interpolationUse cn() not template literals for classNamegrep for className={`
Obvious commentsDO NOT use obvious commentsread comments -- are they saying what the code already says?
Disabled lintersDO NOT disable linter warnings unless necessarygrep for eslint-disable in new lines

Quick Grep

# Run against staged/unstaged changes
git diff HEAD -U0 | grep -E '^\+.*\bas\b' | grep -v '^+++' | grep -v 'import.*as'
git diff HEAD -U0 | grep -E '^\+.*: any' | grep -v '^+++'
git diff HEAD -U0 | grep -E '^\+.*\blet\b ' | grep -v '^+++'
git diff HEAD -U0 | grep -E '^\+.*\} else' | grep -v '^+++'
git diff HEAD -U0 | grep -E '^\+.*eslint-disable' | grep -v '^+++'

Common Misses

  • Casts introduced to satisfy a generic -- rethink the generic or type parameter instead
  • undefined as void -- undefined is assignable to void directly
  • let for a variable reassigned once -- restructure to use const
  • Dead imports -- after deleting code, check if its imports are still needed
  • Comments describing the obvious -- // Release all resources above releaseAllResources() adds nothing