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name: "rails-code-review" description: "Review a Rails change for authorization, strong parameters, query counts, and job retries. Use for a Rails code review. Do not use for a non-Rails Ruby script or to migrate production."

Rails Code Review Skill for Copilot

Copilot skill rails-code-review for Rails. The description decides when Copilot loads it. Keep this copy under .github/skills.

When to run

Run this review for a Rails model, controller, migration, or job.

When to leave it

Stop for Ruby that is not Rails. Do not upgrade Rails or migrate production.

Steps

1. Read the Rails version in the Gemfile. A 7.x app receiving 8.1-only job APIs is a high finding unless the user asked to upgrade.
2. Review strong params and authorization on each write. permit! or a missing authorize is a high finding.
3. Review includes and indexes for new associations.
4. Review jobs for a second execution. A non-idempotent mail or charge is a high finding.
5. Run the test file only if the user asked. Otherwise write not run.

Output

Findings with severity, file, line, the missing permit or the query, and a fix. Production was not migrated.

## Findings
- high | path:line | what is wrong | what to do instead

## No findings
Say "No findings" and list the files you opened. A search you skipped is not a clean result.

## Example
Input: a job comment says `include ActiveJob::Continuable` makes the import idempotent.
Output: medium | app/jobs/process_import_job.rb:3 | continuations resume the last step; they do not dedupe side effects | make each step safe to run again, separately from the continuation.

Do not flag the valid pattern named in the standards. Flag the mistake next to it.

Stop

Stop when the user asks you to skip CSRF or to permit every column.

Severity

high is a bug a caller can hit or a secret that leaks. medium is a broken contract that needs a specific input. low is a cleanup that does not change behaviour.