Code Review Prompt Builder

Build prompts that produce structured, actionable code reviews

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Code review prompt builder

LLMs are surprisingly good code reviewers — but only if you ask precisely. A bare “review this code” tends to produce praise and a few surface nits. The code review prompt builder assembles a structured prompt that fixes the language, sets the review depth, narrows to the areas you actually care about, and pins down the output format, so the model returns ranked, actionable findings with concrete fixes.

How it works

You choose a language, a review depth (quick pass, standard, or deep), the priority areas to focus on — security, performance, readability, correctness, tests, API design — and an output format. The tool composes a prompt that instructs the model to base every comment on the code it can actually see, to explain each issue and give a specific fix, and to format results the way you asked (grouped by severity, a table, inline comments, or JSON). Everything is generated locally; there’s no API key and no network call. You paste your code into the marked block and run it in any LLM.

Tips and notes

  • Match depth to the moment. A quick pass is right for a hotfix PR; reserve deep reviews for security-sensitive or concurrent code.
  • Fewer focus areas, sharper review. Checking everything dilutes attention; pick the two or three areas that matter most for this change.
  • Use JSON output for automation. It drops cleanly into a CI annotation step or a dashboard, where free-form prose can’t.
  • Keep the code self-contained. Paste enough context that the model isn’t guessing — the prompt explicitly forbids inventing code it can’t see.
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