bmad-checkpoint-preview

To review a git pull request step by step, this Skill structures the process into orientation, review trail generation, concern-based walkthroughs, risk surfacing, and wrap-up. It resolves change context from git or GitHub CLI to focus your manual inspection on high-impact areas.

A checkpoint review for code changes is a human-in-the-loop process that summarizes intent, maps review order, and surfaces high-blast-radius areas like auth, schema, and public APIs. It helps reviewers decide what to inspect manually instead of getting lost in raw diffs.

Yes, you can use this for branch walkthroughs and commit inspection in git. The Skill applies to pull request review, commit inspection, branch walkthroughs, and spec-backed implementation reviews by resolving change context from current git state or GitHub CLI.

To identify risk spots in a code review, this Skill highlights high-blast-radius areas such as authentication, schema, public APIs, config, security, and infrastructure. It organizes walkthrough concerns and suggests observable manual checks for these critical design decisions.

You do not need the GitHub CLI strictly, as the Skill can resolve change context from current git state, commits, or branches. However, GitHub CLI is supported for pulling PR data when reviewing pull requests in git-based software projects.

The best way to guide human review of a pull request is following a multi-step orientation-to-wrap-up process that generates a review trail and uses path:line references. This Skill focuses reviewers on design decisions and suggests observable manual checks.