Requesting code review

Dispatches a reviewer with fresh context, so the review is not done by the model that just wrote the code.

Installation

$ npx skills add obra/superpowers

The CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in obra/superpowers, not requesting-code-review alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.

Summary

Dispatches a reviewer with fresh context, so the review is not done by the model that just wrote the code.

  • Reach for it when before you open the PR — a self-review from the authoring context finds almost nothing.
  • Sits in Review — reading a diff critically, and the far harder skill of acting on what a reviewer said.
  • Stack-agnostic — nothing in it assumes a particular language or framework.
  • Published by Jesse Vincent. Well regarded, but not the vendor of the thing it covers.
  • Installing pulls the whole obra/superpowers repository: this catalogue lists 13 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.

Where it sits in delivery

ReviewReading a diff critically, and the far harder skill of acting on what a reviewer said.Everything in Review

The agent itself

The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.

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