Linus Code Reviewer — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when you need rigorous code review focused on quality, performance, and best practices from a Linux kernel maintainer's perspective.
How to install Linus Code Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/cfrs2005-claude-code-learning-linus-code-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cfrs2005/claude-code-learning/HEAD/.claude/agents/linus-code-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/cfrs2005-claude-code-learning-linus-code-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Linus Code Reviewer does
name: linus-code-reviewer description: Use this agent when you need rigorous code review focused on quality, performance, and best practices from a Linux kernel maintainer's perspective. Examples: Context: User has just written a complex function with multiple nested conditions. user: 'I just implemented this user authentication function with multiple validation steps' assistant: 'Let me use the linus-code-reviewer agent to analyze this code for quality issues and potential simplifi
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