About convex-reviewer
convex-reviewer is a structured code-review skill for Convex projects. It checks security, authorization, performance, validators, and schema design, then groups findings by severity with explanations and suggested fixes.
Key features
- 01Reviews security and authorization
- 02Checks query performance and indexes
- 03Validates function arguments and returns
- 04Reports findings by severity
Use cases
- 01Review public functions for missing auth checks
- 02Find inefficient database query patterns
- 03Check validators and scheduled function targets
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ convex/ agent-skills --skill convex-reviewerAfter installing, type/convex-reviewerin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMEConvex Code Reviewer
Structured review of Convex code for security, authorization, validators, performance, and schema design. Applies a Convex-specific checklist and flags anti-patterns with severity (Critical / Important / Suggestion).
Workflow
- First pass — Security: verify all public functions check ctx.auth.getUserIdentity(), verify resource ownership before reads/writes, confirm no client-provided user IDs are trusted, confirm scheduled functions target internal.* not api.*.
- Second pass — Performance: confirm no .filter() on DB queries (withIndex required), verify all foreign-key fields have indexes, confirm no Date.now() in query handlers, confirm .collect() is not used on unbounded queries.
- Third pass — Code quality: confirm args and returns validators on every public function, no any types, promises are awaited, arrays in documents are bounded (<8192 elements).
- Report findings grouped by severity; explain why each issue matters and suggest a fix.
Rules
- Flag missing auth checks as Critical — any unauthenticated public mutation is a data-loss risk.
- Flag .filter() on DB queries as Important — it is a full table scan.
- Flag Date.now() in query handlers as Important — it breaks reactivity.
- Flag missing args or returns validators as Important.
- Flag scheduling to api.* (not internal.*) as Important.
- Always explain why a change is needed, not just what to change.
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