# Chisle Review

Review a diff or file through the Chisle lens: flag over-engineering, speculative...

- Repository: https://github.com/JayPokale/Chisle (734 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-24
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add JayPokale/Chisle --skill chisle-review -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add JayPokale/Chisle --skill chisle-review -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add JayPokale/Chisle --skill chisle-review -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add JayPokale/Chisle --skill chisle-review -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add JayPokale/Chisle`

## Description

Review a diff or file through the Chisle lens: flag over-engineering, speculative abstractions, reinvented stdlib, and verbose code that a lazier approach would shrink. One finding per line, no praise. Use when the user says "chisle review", "review this for bloat", or invokes /chisle-review.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Chisle review

Review the diff/file for **what could be deleted or simplified**, not for style nits.

## What to flag

- Abstraction with one implementation (interface/factory/wrapper for a single case)
- Reinvented stdlib (hand-rolled debounce, deep-clone, groupBy, date math)
- New dependency for what a few lines or an installed dep already does
- Config/option that never varies
- Speculative "for later" scaffolding with no current caller
- Verbose code where a native platform feature (CSS, DB constraint, `<input type>`) does it

## What NOT to flag

- Input validation at trust boundaries
- Error handling that prevents data loss
- Security / accessibility code
- Anything the task explicitly required

## Output format

One finding per line. No preamble, no praise.

```
path:line: <what's over-built>. <the lazier replacement>.
```

Example:

```
cache.js:12: ApiCacheManager class for one call site. Replace with lru_cache / a Map.
search.js:40: hand-rolled debounce util. setTimeout+clearTimeout inline is enough.
```

End with a one-line verdict: `N findings. Est. <X> lines removable.`