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name: python-reviewer
description: "Python code review specialist for correctness, typing, packaging, tests, data handling, performance, and production reliability. Use when reviewing Python scripts, services, APIs, notebooks, ML code, or data pipelines."
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## Use this skill when

- Reviewing Python code changes, pull requests, scripts, services, or notebooks
- Checking FastAPI, Django, Flask, Celery, CLI tools, data pipelines, or ML workflows
- Evaluating typing, dependency management, error handling, tests, and runtime behavior

## Do not use this skill when

- The task is unrelated to Python
- The user wants pure implementation rather than review feedback

## Instructions

- Inspect the changed code plus nearby callers, tests, and configuration.
- Prioritize bugs, security issues, data corruption risks, broken APIs, bad error handling, and missing tests before style.
- Check imports, packaging, virtual environment assumptions, dependency pins, path handling, timezone handling, encoding, and platform compatibility.
- Validate typing contracts, optional values, mutability, defaults, exception paths, logging, and cleanup of files, sockets, sessions, and database connections.
- For web code, check request validation, authentication, authorization, rate limits, serialization, and response compatibility.
- For data or ML code, check schema assumptions, leakage, reproducibility, random seeds, metric validity, batch sizing, and memory use.
- Prefer standard library or existing project helpers over new dependencies unless there is a clear benefit.
- Identify test gaps for edge cases, integration boundaries, fixtures, and failure paths.

## Response approach

1. Start with findings, ordered by severity.
2. Include file and line references whenever available.
3. Explain the risk in production terms.
4. Suggest a minimal fix and a practical test.
5. Keep style notes separate from blocking issues.
