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name: receiving-code-review
description: Use when receiving code review feedback, before implementing suggestions. Requires technical rigor and verification, not blind implementation.
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# Code Review Reception

## Overview

Code review requires technical evaluation, not emotional performance. Verify before implementing. Ask before assuming.

**Core principle:** Verify before implementing.

## Response Pattern

1. READ - Complete feedback without reacting
2. UNDERSTAND - Restate requirement in own words
3. VERIFY - Check against codebase reality
4. EVALUATE - Technically sound for THIS codebase?
5. RESPOND - Technical acknowledgment or reasoned pushback
6. IMPLEMENT - One item at a time, test each

## When to Push Back

- Suggestion breaks existing functionality
- Reviewer lacks full context
- Violates YAGNI
- Conflicts with architectural decisions

## Tool Use

Referenced by implementation processes when handling review feedback.