# Code review prompts

> 7 bides on code review, each with the result it produced.

- [Review gate for a coding agent's diff before you merge it](https://promptabide.com/bides/review-gate-for-coding-agent-diff) — Anyone merging changes written by Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Copilot agents, especially after long unattended runs.
- [Review a REST API design before any client depends on it](https://promptabide.com/bides/review-rest-api-design-before-building) — Backend and full-stack developers about to ship an API that mobile apps or third parties will call and that will be hard to change later.
- [Code review with a blocker/major/minor severity rubric](https://promptabide.com/bides/code-review-with-severity-rubric) — Solo developers without a reviewer, or teams wanting a first-pass review that separates real bugs from style opinions.
- [Explain-then-edit protocol for Claude Code and Codex tasks](https://promptabide.com/bides/explain-then-edit-protocol-coding-agents) — Developers using Claude Code, Codex or Cursor on code they care about, who want to catch a wrong plan before it becomes a wrong diff.
- [Write a commit message and PR description from a diff](https://promptabide.com/bides/commit-message-and-pr-description-from-diff) — Developers who want clean commit history and reviewable PRs without spending ten minutes writing them by hand.
- [Compare two coding agents' attempts at the same task and pick one](https://promptabide.com/bides/compare-two-coding-agent-attempts) — Developers who run the same task through two agents or two attempts (best-of-n) and need a fair, fast way to choose.
- [Security review of a code snippet with exploit-level detail](https://promptabide.com/bides/security-review-code-snippet-with-exploits) — Developers shipping web endpoints who want a focused security pass on specific handlers before release or after a scare.

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