Alternatives to brooks-review
brooks-review is an agent skill by hyhmrright: PR code review that surfaces decay risks, design smells, and maintainability issues with concrete Symptom → Source → Consequence → Remedy findings, drawing on…. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match brooks-review and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. caveman-review leads the list (larger repository (114.8K stars)). 3 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with brooks-review.
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brooks-review
PR code review that surfaces decay risks, design smells, and maintainability issues with concrete Symptom → Source → Consequence → Remedy findings, drawing on…
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches brooks-review (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1caveman-review
JuliusBrussee
Compressed code review - one line per finding with location, problem and fix.
- Larger repository (114.8K stars)
★ 114.8KLast active Oct 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2ai-coding-agent-guardrails
devops-skills
Secure AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot) with permission boundaries, secret protection, code review gates, and safe sandbox…
- Larger repository (48.4K stars)
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3code-review
langchain-aiOfficial
Perform a structured code review of changes, checking for correctness, style, tests, and potential issues.
- Published by the vendor
- Larger repository (30.6K stars)
- Supports Python
★ 30.6KLast active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4github
spinabot
GitHub operations via `gh` CLI: issues, PRs, CI runs, code review, API queries.
- Larger repository (11.4K stars)
★ 11.4KLast active Sep 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 5frappe-code-review
frappe
Review code for any Frappe application — a checklist distilled from years of engineering practice on correctness, security, performance, concurrency…
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 156Last active Sep 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6plannotator-review
backnotprop
Open Plannotator's browser-based code review UI and address the returned feedback.
- Larger repository (9.6K stars)
★ 9.6KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7bmad-code-review
bmad-code-org
Review code changes with several independent reviewers in parallel, then triage and present the findings.
- Larger repository (54.5K stars)
★ 54.5KLast active Oct 18, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8security-review
getsentryOfficial
Security code review for vulnerabilities.
- Published by the vendor
★ 1.1KLast active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9requesting-code-review
GanyuanRan
Use when requesting independent code review, after implementation slices, before merging high-risk work, or when verification exposes evidence, baseline…
- Repository has 1.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.4KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10receiving-code-review
GanyuanRan
Use when receiving code review feedback before implementing suggestions, especially when feedback is unclear, risky, disputed, or technically questionable.
- Repository has 1.4K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 1.4KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11django-perf-review
getsentryOfficial
Django performance code review.
- Published by the vendor
★ 1.1KLast active Sep 28, 2026Claude Code
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12adversarial-review
sendbird
Run a design-challenging Claude Code review of local git changes in this repository.
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 226Last active Aug 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet