code-review-and-quality

A multi-axis code review improves code health by evaluating changes across correctness, readability, architecture, security, and performance before merges, ensuring structured quality assurance and documented rationale for approvals.

To perform a structured code review before merging, use a five-axis checklist to assess correctness, readability, architecture, security, and performance, documenting findings and regression checks to justify approvals.

Yes, the five-axis code review checklist works on third-party code and changes authored by automated agents, evaluating them against project conventions to ensure consistent architecture and security before merges.

The best way to approve changes without blocking progress is to verify they clearly improve code health across the five axes, approving even if imperfect while documenting rationale and ensuring tests pass.

You need to evaluate security and performance during every code review for new code, refactors, or bug fixes, applying the five-axis assessment to ensure changes do not degrade overall code health.