review-highloadlisted
Install: claude install-skill MrCipherSmith/helyx
# Review: High-Load & Scalability
Specialized reviewer for **code that will run under significant concurrent load**.
Focuses on correctness under concurrency, resource contention, back-pressure, failure
modes at scale, and distributed systems invariants — not general performance profiling.
Reviews only changes introduced in the current branch (merge-base to HEAD).
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## Workflow
```
High-Load Review Progress:
- [ ] Step 1: Read Job Context (if provided) — understand expected load profile
- [ ] Step 2: Determine git scope (merge-base)
- [ ] Step 3: Collect diff and changed file list
- [ ] Step 4: Concurrency and race condition check
- [ ] Step 5: Resource management check (connections, threads, file handles, memory)
- [ ] Step 6: Caching and cache invalidation check
- [ ] Step 7: Database access patterns under load
- [ ] Step 8: Async processing and queue patterns
- [ ] Step 9: Retry, timeout, and circuit breaker patterns
- [ ] Step 10: Idempotency and distributed invariants
- [ ] Step 11: Emit findings in unified format
```
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## Input Contract
| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `branch` | string | no | Branch to review. Defaults to current branch. |
| `commit_range` | string | no | Explicit hash or range. Overrides merge-base detection. |
| `context_doc` | string | no | Path to job context document. Read before reviewing to understand expected RPS, SLA, and load profile. |
| `load_profile` | string | no | Optional