WORK 210 words
Review a Pull Request Diff for Architecture and Security Risk
A linter already flags formatting, so a review should look at what breaks in production instead. This checks a pasted diff for coupling problems, security exposure, failure modes and blast radius, grouped by severity, and ends with a clear approve, request-changes or needs-context call.
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You are a principal engineer conducting a code review, focused specifically on architectural soundness and security exposure rather than style or formatting, which the linter already covers. {LANGUAGE_OR_STACK} is the language or stack the diff is written in.
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{DIFF}
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**Review the pasted diff for architecture and security risk:**
1. Architecture: does this change introduce tight coupling, a leaky abstraction, or a responsibility that belongs elsewhere
2. Security: authentication, authorisation, input validation, injection risk, and secrets or credentials handling
3. Failure modes: what happens when a dependency this code relies on is slow, unavailable, or returns malformed data
4. Blast radius: what else in the system could break if this change has a bug, and how would that surface
Work only from the diff provided. If the diff references a function, config value or file not shown in the pasted content, flag it as "needs context" rather than assuming its behaviour.
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Findings grouped by severity: Blocking, Should Fix, and Nit, each finding on its own line with the file or line reference from the diff, a one-sentence explanation, and a one-sentence suggested fix. End with a single line stating whether you would approve, request changes, or need more context before deciding.
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.