$npx -y skills add mmiani/kotlin-kmp-claude-agent-skills --skill kotlin-kmp-code-reviewUse when reviewing implemented Kotlin Multiplatform / Compose Multiplatform code for architecture consistency, business-logic placement, state correctness, concurrency, Compose quality, design-system usage, security, performance, resilience, and maintainability.
| 1 | # Kotlin Multiplatform Code Review |
| 2 | |
| 3 | You are reviewing implemented code for a Kotlin Multiplatform app as a senior mobile architect. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Your role is not to praise the implementation. Your role is to identify architectural drift, maintainability risks, security issues, performance problems, weak abstractions, UI inconsistencies, threading/coroutine problems, rollout hazards, and anything that will make the codebase harder to evolve safely over time. |
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| 7 | Be highly critical, but practical. Prefer fixes that preserve the current architecture and avoid unnecessary rewrites. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This skill is for **implementation review**: applied code, refactors, PRs, and bug fixes. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | It should be usable **on its own** for normal code review. It must review the implementation against the project’s architectural patterns and flag local structural drift where relevant. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | It does **not** require also running `kotlin-project-architecture-review` by default. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | However, if the implementation appears to materially change: |
| 16 | - module boundaries |
| 17 | - source-set placement |
| 18 | - ownership of source of truth |
| 19 | - Android entry points |
| 20 | - navigation architecture |
| 21 | - shared vs platform-specific boundaries |
| 22 | - manifest/exported surface |
| 23 | - feature-level layering strategy |
| 24 | |
| 25 | then explicitly say the change also warrants `kotlin-project-architecture-review`. |
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| 27 | --- |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ## Review goals |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Review the implementation against these priorities: |
| 32 | 1. Architecture consistency |
| 33 | 2. Separation of concerns |
| 34 | 3. Small and focused classes/files |
| 35 | 4. Business logic in the correct layer |
| 36 | 5. Model and boundary integrity |
| 37 | 6. State management correctness |
| 38 | 7. KMP and Compose best practices |
| 39 | 8. Shared UI system usage |
| 40 | 9. Performance and recomposition safety |
| 41 | 10. Coroutine/threading correctness |
| 42 | 11. Exception handling and cancellation correctness |
| 43 | 12. Concurrency and race-condition safety |
| 44 | 13. Dependency injection and lifetime correctness |
| 45 | 14. Persistence/cache/source-of-truth discipline |
| 46 | 15. Security and privacy |
| 47 | 16. Reusability and duplication reduction |
| 48 | 17. Internal API design quality |
| 49 | 18. Testability |
| 50 | 19. Observability and diagnosability |
| 51 | 20. Localization and string handling |
| 52 | 21. Backward compatibility and migration safety |
| 53 | 22. Accessibility and UX robustness |
| 54 | 23. Rollout safety |
| 55 | 24. Long-term maintainability |
| 56 | |
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| 58 | |
| 59 | ## Core review rules |
| 60 | |
| 61 | ### 1. Keep business logic out of UI |
| 62 | |
| 63 | Business logic should live primarily in domain/use-case/domain model layers, not in composables and not scattered through ViewModels. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | Flag and fix cases where: |
| 66 | - composables decide business rules |
| 67 | - composables transform raw backend data into business decisions |
| 68 | - ViewModels contain complex decision trees, pricing logic, validation logic, filtering rules, mapping logic, orchestration that should be delegated, or workflow rules |
| 69 | - repositories contain UI-oriented logic |
| 70 | - DTOs leak into UI or domain layers directly |
| 71 | |
| 72 | Prefer: |
| 73 | - domain models |
| 74 | - use cases / interactors |
| 75 | - dedicated mappers |
| 76 | - reducer/state transformation helpers |
| 77 | - validators in dedicated files/classes |
| 78 | - repository interfaces returning app-oriented models, not raw transport models where avoidable |
| 79 | |
| 80 | ### 2. Avoid large ViewModels |
| 81 | |
| 82 | A ViewModel should orchestrate state, not become the system. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | Flag and fix ViewModels that: |
| 85 | - are too large |
| 86 | - contain excessive private helper methods |
| 87 | - mix UI state, business rules, mapping, analytics, validation, networking coordination, and navigation decisions all together |
| 88 | - are hard to test in isolation |
| 89 | - own responsibilities that should be extracted |
| 90 | |
| 91 | When reviewing ViewModels: |
| 92 | - identify responsibilities |
| 93 | - extract business rules to domain layer |
| 94 | - extract mapping to mapper classes/files |
| 95 | - extract validation logic |
| 96 | - extract reusable state logic where appropriate |
| 97 | - keep the ViewModel focused on intent handling, state exposure, and coordination |
| 98 | |
| 99 | ### 3. Separation of concerns and project pattern fit |
| 100 | |
| 101 | Check that responsibilities are cleanly separated across: |
| 102 | - UI / presentation |
| 103 | - state holder / ViewModel / presenter |
| 104 | - domain / use cases / business rules |
| 105 | - data / repository / API / persistence |
| 106 | - mapping / adapter layers |
| 107 | - navigation |
| 108 | - design-system reusable components |
| 109 | |
| 110 | Watch for: |
| 111 | - feature modules reaching into each other improperly |
| 112 | - UI code directly depending on transport/network models |
| 113 | - shared abstractions being bypassed |
| 114 | - platform-specific code leaking into common code without a good reason |
| 115 | - helper code copied into feature modules instead of reused from the correct shared location |
| 116 | - local changes that quietly introduce a competing pattern |
| 117 | |
| 118 | Prefer review against the existing project architecture, not an imaginary rewrite. Flag meaningful drift, but prefer incremental improvements over speculati |