brooks-lint
AI code reviewer grounded in classic software engineering books for catching design smells, coupling issues, and architectural risks.
Profile →npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill brooks-lint --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Brooks Lint ## Overview Brooks Lint is a Claude Code skill that reviews your code through the lens of 12 classic software engineering books. Instead of checking style rules, it asks: "What would the authors of *The Pragmatic Programmer*, *Clean Code*, and *Designing Data-Intensive Applications* say about this code?" It synthesizes the principles from landmark engineering books into actionable, structured feedback — catching design smells, tight coupling, missing abstractions, and architectural risks that linters and AI tools typically miss. Named after Fred Brooks, author of *The Mythical Man-Month* — because the hardest bugs are conceptual, not syntactic. ## The 12 Books | Book | Key Principles Applied | |------|----------------------| | *The Pragmatic Programmer* | DRY, orthogonality, tracer bullets | | *Clean Code* | Naming, function size, comment clarity | | *The Mythical Man-Month* | Conceptual integrity, second-system effect | | *Designing Data-Intensive Applications* | Data consistency, fault tolerance, scalability | | *A Philosophy of Software Design* | Deep modules, information hiding, complexity | | *Refactoring* | Code smells, extract method, encapsulation | | *Working
- Overview
- The 12 Books
- When to Use This Skill
- How It Works
- Installation
- Examples
- Example 1: Review a Service Class
- Example 2: Full Codebase Architecture Review
- Example 3: Pre-Refactor Review
- Review Categories
- Best Practices
- Related Skills
- Additional Resources
- Limitations
Install via Claude Code plugin marketplace Or install via NPX (Antigravity) npx agentic-awesome-skills --claude Then invoke: @brooks-lint
What does the brooks-lint skill do?
AI code reviewer grounded in classic software engineering books for catching design smells, coupling issues, and architectural risks.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill brooks-lint --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, a repository with 44,414 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.