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adk-review

Reviews all local changes in the repository for errors, styling compliance, unintended outcomes, and necessary documentation/test/sample updates. Generates a report and assists in fixing identified issues on-demand. Triggers on "adk-review", "review changes", "pr review", "check code style", "verify changes".

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google/adk-python
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Drops the SKILL.md into .claude/skills/adk-review.md. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any agent that loads SKILL.md files from .claude/skills/.

ADK Change Reviewer

Review the working-tree diff against the seven dimensions below, report what is wrong, and stop. Fix only what the user then asks you to fix.

Workflow

  1. git status and git diff (add --staged for staged work) to get the exact set of added, modified, and deleted files.
  2. Review the diff file by file against the checklist.
  3. Emit the report in the format below.
  4. Stop. Do not edit any file, and do not offer to. Wait for the user to ask.
  5. If the user asks for fixes, apply them, then re-run the affected tests (pytest tests/unittests/{path}) and pre-commit run --files {paths}.

Step 4 is the part that is easy to get wrong: an unrequested fix buries the findings the user asked for and mixes review output with new, unreviewed edits.

Checklist

1. Correctness

  • Types: no new mypy errors. CI diffs mypy output against the base branch and fails only on newly introduced errors, so a pre-existing error in a file you touched is not a blocker but a new one is.
  • Imports: no circular imports; absolute imports where the module already uses them.
  • Exceptions: no bare except:; catch a specific type and log with enough context to identify the caller.
  • Type discrimination: check an object's type before reading a type-specific attribute (for example confirm a node is an LlmAgent before inspecting mode), so an unexpected node type raises nothing.
  • Boundaries: None, empty collections, zero, and empty strings are handled by validation or a fallback default.
  • Preconditions: state invariants are checked before the core logic runs.

2. Design

  • Complexity: functions or classes that would be clearer split up.
  • Coupling: high cohesion, low coupling; no anti-patterns introduced.
  • Performance: redundant computation, repeated I/O in a loop, or allocations that scale with input where they need not.
  • Security: inputs validated, sensitive data not logged, no injection, resource exhaustion, or exposure of internal state.

3. Style

Cross-reference the diff against the adk-style skill rather than restating its rules here: visibility and _ prefixes, typing, Pydantic v2 patterns, lazy logging, imports, async, and file organization.

Confirm the changed files pass pre-commit run --files {paths}.

4. Architecture and unintended outcomes

  • Public API stability: does the change modify, remove, or narrow a public interface, class, method, argument list, or CLI surface under src/google/adk/? A breaking change needs a deprecation cycle first, because the package is released under Semantic Versioning and users pin minor versions.
  • Execution and resumption: changes to workflows, nodes, or state must stay compatible with the event execution lifecycle and with session resumption (human-in-the-loop steps and checkpoints). See the adk-architecture skill.
  • Concurrency and lifetime: no race conditions; plugins, exporters, and connections are closed on every path, including the error path.

5. Documentation impact

  • User-facing documentation lives in the separate adk-docs repository, so a user-visible change needs a PR there as well; note it in the report.
  • Guides under docs/guides/ may need an update when a public API or workflow pattern changes.
  • If the change alters a code unit's design contract, the adk-unit-design skill owns the design document for that unit.

6. Samples

  • Do existing samples under contributing/samples/ still run against the change?
  • Does a new capability warrant a new sample? Follow the adk-sample-creator conventions if so.

7. Tests

  • Every new or modified code path has a test under tests/unittests/.
  • A new test belongs in the existing test_{module}*.py file for its unit, not in a file named after the change, which fragments that unit's coverage.
  • Tests follow the rules in the adk-style testing reference: one behavior per test, behavior-named tests, no assertions on private attributes, minimal fixtures, arrange/act/assert structure.

Report format

Group findings by priority and give a file path and line for each. Do not report a dimension with nothing to say.

  • 🔴 Critical: bugs, type errors, race conditions, resource leaks, security issues.
  • 🟠 Design: complexity, readability, performance, architectural misalignment.
  • 🟡 Style: lint, formatting, non-lazy logging, typing mismatches.
  • 🔵 Docs, tests, samples: missing or stale coverage, guides, samples.