# Recursive code review

> Use when a diff needs several tightening passes, not one verdict.

Use this skill when reviewing uncommitted code changes, improving code quality before commit, or performing iterative feedback cycles on staged or unstaged diffs. Especially useful when the user wants deeper critique, multiple review passes, or systematic refinement before opening a PR.

## Facts

- Type: Agent skill
- Discipline: Engineering
- Author: Angie Jones (https://github.com/angiejones)
- Upstream: https://github.com/angiejones/skills/tree/main/recursive-code-review
- Source file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angiejones/skills/main/recursive-code-review/SKILL.md (2265 bytes, sha256:895c380a12e2d53cdae3934639f15af9f98a23e25fa0999624a3c906d2fa7638)
- Licence: none declared by the repo
- Upstream copy last changed: 2026-09-17
- Status: listed, not yet ruled on by the curator

## Use it

I want to use the Recursive code review skill by Angie Jones.
This is what it does, in the author's own words: Use this skill when reviewing uncommitted code changes, improving code quality before commit, or performing iterative feedback cycles on staged or unstaged diffs. Especially useful when the user wants deeper critique, multiple review passes, or systematic refinement before opening a PR.
Download the whole folder at https://github.com/angiejones/skills/tree/main/recursive-code-review, SKILL.md and every file beside it, into your skills directory: ~/.claude/skills/recursive-code-review/ for Claude Code, ~/.agents/skills/recursive-code-review/ for Codex, ~/.cursor/skills/recursive-code-review/ for Cursor. Get it from the author's repo, not from startupskills.dev.
Then tell me the path you installed it to and how to invoke it.

Nothing here is vendored: install from the author's repo. This file carries none of the author's file.

## Links

- Page: https://startupskills.dev/angiejones/recursive-code-review
- Author: https://startupskills.dev/angiejones
- Index: https://startupskills.dev/llms.txt

## The file

Not reproduced here: the repo does not license republication. Read it on the author's GitHub:
https://github.com/angiejones/skills/blob/main/recursive-code-review/SKILL.md