Skill profile

brooks-review

PR code review that surfaces decay risks.

What this skill does for you

PR code review that surfaces decay risks, design smells, and maintainability issues with concrete Symptom → Source → Consequence → Remedy findings, drawing on twelve classic engineering books. Triggers when: user asks to review code, check a PR, shares a diff or pastes code asking "does this look right?" / "any issues here?" / "ready to merge?", or asks for feedback on a function, class, or file. Also triggers when user mentions: code smells / refactoring / clean architecture / DDD / SOLID principles / Hyrum's Law / deep modules / tactical programming / conceptual integrity / Brooks's Law / Mythical Man-Month / second system effect. Do NOT trigger for: questions about how to write code from scratch, language syntax questions, or framework/tool questions where no existing code is shared.

Quoted from the skill description in the pinned source

Who made it

Publisherhyhmrright

Repositorybrooks-lint

Installs325as of Sep 27, 2026

Use it with Edge

Set up Edge for me: read getedge.cc/SKILL.md and follow it. Then use Edge to load the brooks-review skill from hyhmrright/brooks-lint.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

Or read the skill source first.

Security evidence

Security state at 2026-09-30: reviewed. State definitions. This records static evidence for this revision; live load eligibility is checked again.

3 static scans, 0 counted findings. The listed scanners recorded the results shown for this package revision.

Scanner	Date	Result
Edge static checks	2026-09-27	Pass
Cisco skill-scanner	2026-09-27	Pass
Semgrep Edge rules	2026-09-27	Pass

Static scans check the code, not how well the skill works.

Scanner scope, raw findings and mirrored provider records

Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: 220fe716c01950966e961e020eda9c457f4dd0a7. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: 220fe716c01950966e961e020eda9c457f4dd0a7. Raw findings: 1. Counted findings: .

Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: 220fe716c01950966e961e020eda9c457f4dd0a7. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Source and licence

Repository: https://github.com/hyhmrright/brooks-lint
Pinned skill file: View source at revision
Revision: 220fe716c01950966e961e020eda9c457f4dd0a7
Package hash: sha256:bf5333c56ca0786ddb01f219a339c161d7cc313d480ff45d8fa9369b4a6154cf
Licence: MIT