The Senior Engineer in Your Repo Needs Code Review
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As coding agents become integrated into developer workflows, custom agent skills and guidelines are increasingly used to enforce engineering standards across repositories. However, encoding rules into agent definitions comes with a major caveat: unexamined skills can institutionalize obsolete design decisions, bad abstractions, and anti-patterns just as easily as good practices. This article emphasizes that agent configurations require the same rigorous code review and architectural oversight as production application code. As engineering leads and staff engineers incorporate AI tools into team workflows, auditing agent skills ensures that automated assistance reflects modern system standards rather than amplifying technical debt.