// 16 tips tagged "code-review"
Set up Claude Code as an automated reviewer in your CI pipeline — on every pull request, it reads the diff, checks for bugs, security issues, missing tests, and convention violations, then posts its findings as a PR comment. Your human reviewers get a head start because the obvious issues are already flagged before they look.
After Claude finishes a task, ask it to list everything that could go wrong before you ship for a free second review that catches edge cases.
When your branch is ready for review, tell Claude to read the diff against main and write a PR description — a clear summary of what changed, why, how to test it, and anything reviewers should pay attention to. Better descriptions lead to faster, more focused reviews.
Before deploying, tell Claude to scan your code for security issues — SQL injection, XSS, CSRF gaps, insecure defaults, hardcoded secrets, broken auth, and mass assignment risks. Claude reads your actual code, not just patterns, so it finds vulnerabilities that generic scanners miss.
Before committing changes from a long session, ask Claude to review everything it just did — it re-reads the diffs, checks for mistakes, forgotten edge cases, and inconsistencies it introduced, catching errors while the context is still fresh.
Paste a PR URL or diff into Claude Code and it reviews the changes like a senior developer — checking for bugs, edge cases, security issues, naming, test coverage, and adherence to project conventions — then gives structured feedback organized by severity.
When you're ready to open a PR, ask Claude to read all the commits on your branch, understand the full scope of changes, and write a proper description — summary, what changed, why it matters, and testing instructions — so reviewers know exactly what they're looking at.
Tell Claude to scan your codebase for common security vulnerabilities — SQL injection, XSS, broken authentication, insecure deserialization, and the rest of the OWASP Top 10 — and it finds the actual vulnerable lines with specific fixes, not generic advice.
Tell Claude to scan your project for security vulnerabilities — SQL injection, XSS, hardcoded secrets, insecure dependencies, and missing auth checks — and it reads your actual code to produce specific, actionable findings, not generic warnings.
Give Claude a PR number or URL and ask it to review the changes — it fetches the diff, reads the affected files in full, and gives you a thorough code review without leaving your terminal.
Instead of waiting for @claude mentions, configure the Claude GitHub Actions workflow to run automatically when a PR opens — so every PR gets reviewed without anyone having to remember to ask.
The /security-review command scans your uncommitted changes for injection vectors, auth gaps, hardcoded secrets, and other common vulnerabilities.