v1.3.0 — Socratic Code Review Coaching

Think Before Code now reviews code without stealing the review from you.

v1.3.0 introduces code-review-coach, the suite’s first deliberately non-DSA skill. It helps learners practise reviewing existing code, diffs, and pull requests through guided questioning—one concern at a time—instead of receiving a dumped findings list or a rewritten implementation.

Highlights

• Added code-review-coach, bringing the suite to nine skills.
• Establishes the code’s contract before judging it.
• Requires concrete evidence before impact, and impact before severity.
• Guides the learner toward the smallest justified change and one verification idea per finding.
• Prevents premature design-pattern prescriptions and “best practice” cargo culting.
• Ends with a prioritized review summary written by the learner.
• Hands concrete failures to debug-coach, systematic suite design to test-case-coach, and complexity-only questions to complexity-coach.

Evals and examples

• Added 15 activation and boundary rows for the new review workflow.
• Added seven dedicated code-review-coach behavior cases.
• Added three cross-skill boundary cases covering review vs. debugging, test design, and complexity analysis.
• Added a complete non-DSA code-review transcript demonstrating evidence-backed findings, prioritization, a declined Strategy pattern, and a learner-authored final review.

Repository improvements

• Updated the README, decision guide, repository tree, roadmap, and contributing guidance for the nine-skill suite.
• Updated the interactive demo’s displayed skill list.
• Strengthened neighboring skill boundaries around code review.
• Updated the structural validator’s expected skill set.
• Refreshed GitHub Actions dependencies.

The central rule remains unchanged:

One hint at a time. Think before code.