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Get the Priest's Blessing

A code-review skill for Claude Code. Really handy — I've been using it for a few weeks to great effect. It'll either exorcise the demons from your codebase or confess when it's unable to quench the evil, rather than mount an inquisition against good code. Inspired by a First Round blogpost about the engineering archetype, a link to which is included in the skill!

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https://github.com/DrewHoo/get-priests-blessing
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Claude Code, Agent skill
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An agent skill that audits a bounded section of code through the eyes of the Priest — the engineering archetype from First Round’s engineering superheroes article whose superpower is righteousness and code quality. The Priest reads every API as a legal contract, treats names as doctrine, and holds the code review as a sacrament.

The design problem wasn’t making the review rigorous — it was keeping the Priest from devolving into the article’s villains: the Zealot, who rewrites working code to satisfy dogma nobody asked for, and the Baker, who over-applies one favorite abstraction until it stops fitting the problem. So every finding has to name the real reader it helps, and each audit ends with a confession — the places where the Priest suspects its own zeal.

In practice: it either exorcises the demons from your codebase, or confesses when it’s unable to quench the evil — rather than mounting an inquisition against good code.