bcquality/microsoft/skills/review/al-code-review.md
Jesper Schulz-Wedde 637e7ac602 Make BCQuality an additive knowledge layer with agent findings
Let super-skills surface findings the agent identifies on its own,
clearly tagged so consumers can render them differently from
knowledge-backed ones.

- skills/do.md: permit references:[] when from-sub-skill='agent';
  define the agent-finding encoding (id 'agent:<slug>', confidence
  capped at medium, self-contained message); restrict agent findings
  to super-skills only.
- microsoft/skills/review/al-code-review.md: add a self-review pass
  to Action that validates agent-identified candidates against
  BCQuality (cite if matched, suppress if contradicted, surface as
  agent finding otherwise). Add example finding.
- agent-consumption.md, README.md: describe the additive model and
  the from-sub-skill: 'agent' marker so consumer orchestrators know
  to render unbacked findings.

Strictly additive: existing knowledge-backed flow is unchanged and
backward compatible.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-05-21 09:14:30 +02:00

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---
kind: action-skill
id: al-code-review
version: 1
title: AL code review
description: Reviews AL source changes by composing the AL review leaf skills (performance, security, privacy, upgrade, style, UI).
inputs: [pr-diff, file-path]
outputs: [findings-report]
bc-version: [all]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
sub-skills:
- microsoft/skills/review/al-performance-review.md
- microsoft/skills/review/al-security-review.md
- microsoft/skills/review/al-privacy-review.md
- microsoft/skills/review/al-upgrade-review.md
- microsoft/skills/review/al-style-review.md
- microsoft/skills/review/al-ui-review.md
---
# AL code review
Reviews AL source changes by composing the leaf AL review skills. This is the canonical reference implementation of a **super-skill** — skill authors writing composed reviews should copy its structure.
`al-code-review` does not evaluate knowledge files directly. It invokes each of its sub-skills against the same task input, collects their findings-reports, and then performs its own **self-review pass** over the diff using the agent's built-in BC and AL knowledge. BCQuality knowledge is an additive layer: anything the sub-skills found is cited from BCQuality, and anything the agent finds on its own is validated against BCQuality (cited if matched, suppressed if contradicted, surfaced as an **agent finding** otherwise). The result is a single rolled-up findings-report that mixes knowledge-backed and agent findings, each clearly tagged via `from-sub-skill`.
An orchestrator invokes this skill with either a `pr-diff` (the standard PR-review entry point) or a `file-path` (single-file review). The skill produces a single JSON document conforming to the DO output contract, extended with `sub-results` and — when applicable — `skipped-sub-skills`.
## Source
The sub-skills invoked by this skill are those listed in frontmatter `sub-skills`:
- `microsoft/skills/review/al-performance-review.md`
- `microsoft/skills/review/al-security-review.md`
- `microsoft/skills/review/al-privacy-review.md`
- `microsoft/skills/review/al-upgrade-review.md`
- `microsoft/skills/review/al-style-review.md`
- `microsoft/skills/review/al-ui-review.md`
Additional leaf skills (for example, telemetry, testing) are added by updating the `sub-skills` list. The skill does not discover sub-skills implicitly.
## Relevance
A sub-skill is relevant when both of the following hold:
- The orchestrator has supplied inputs that satisfy the sub-skill's declared `inputs`.
- The orchestrator has not disabled the sub-skill via configuration.
Per the DO contract, the super-skill MUST NOT filter sub-skills by task content. `al-code-review` does not inspect the PR diff to predict whether, for example, there is anything for `al-security-review` to find. Each leaf is responsible for its own task-level applicability decision; leaves signal non-applicability by returning `outcome: "not-applicable"` or `outcome: "no-knowledge"`.
Sub-skills that fail either check are not invoked and are recorded in `skipped-sub-skills`:
- `reason: "configuration"` when the orchestrator disabled the sub-skill.
- `reason: "not-applicable"` when the orchestrator's inputs do not satisfy the sub-skill's declared `inputs`.
## Worklist
The worklist is the list of sub-skills judged relevant by the previous step. Every sub-skill in the worklist will be invoked in the Action step.
## Action
### Roll up sub-skill findings
For each sub-skill in the worklist:
1. Invoke the sub-skill with the orchestrator's inputs, passing only the subset each sub-skill declares in its `inputs`.
2. Capture the sub-skill's complete findings-report verbatim and append it to `sub-results`.
3. If the sub-skill's `outcome` is `failed`, stop here for this sub-skill: its findings are not reliable per the DO contract and MUST NOT be copied into the super-skill's top-level `findings[]` or counted in `summary.counts`.
4. Otherwise, append each entry from the sub-skill's `findings[]` to the super-skill's top-level `findings[]`, setting `from-sub-skill` to the sub-skill's `skill.id`. For non-citation findings (those whose `id` is a skill-defined slug rather than a reference path), prefix `id` with `<from-sub-skill>:` to prevent collisions across sub-skills. Other finding fields are preserved.
### Agent self-review pass
After the sub-skill rollup, perform a self-review pass against the same task input using the agent's built-in BC and AL knowledge. BCQuality is an **additive** knowledge layer: it augments the agent's review judgement, it does not replace it. The goal of this pass is to surface defects the agent recognises on its own — bugs, anti-patterns, error-handling gaps, AL idioms — that the leaf sub-skills did not catch because no BCQuality knowledge file covers them yet.
For every candidate the agent identifies in this pass:
1. **Validate against BCQuality knowledge.** Check the candidate against the knowledge files the sub-skills have already loaded for this task (visible via their `references` and `suppressed` lists in `sub-results`).
- If a BCQuality knowledge file matches the candidate, upgrade it to a knowledge-backed finding: cite the file in `references`, set `id` to the file's path, set `from-sub-skill` to the sub-skill that owns that knowledge domain, and merge with or deduplicate against any sub-skill finding that already covers the same concern at the same location.
- If a BCQuality knowledge file **explicitly contradicts** the candidate (its `## Best Practice` or `## Anti Pattern` says the opposite of what the agent flagged), suppress the candidate and do not surface it.
- Otherwise the candidate has no BCQuality coverage; emit it as an agent finding.
2. **Emit agent finding.** Per DO's *Agent findings* rules:
- `from-sub-skill: "agent"`
- `references: []`
- `id` is a skill-defined slug prefixed with `agent:` (for example, `agent:missing-error-handling-on-http-call`).
- `confidence` capped at `medium`.
- `message` is non-empty and self-contained, describing both the issue and a concrete recommendation. A consumer rendering the finding has no knowledge-file footer to fall back on.
Leaf sub-skills MUST NOT emit agent findings: their scope is bounded by the knowledge subset they evaluate. The self-review pass is a super-skill responsibility.
### Summary and rollup
Aggregate `summary.counts` and `summary.coverage` as the sums across invoked sub-skills whose `outcome` is not `failed`. Agent findings emitted by the super-skill itself contribute to `summary.counts` but not to `summary.coverage` (coverage is a sub-skill worklist metric and is undefined for self-review).
`suppressed[]` at the super-skill level remains empty. Knowledge-file-level suppression is reported by each sub-skill within its own entry in `sub-results`.
Derive `outcome` using the DO rollup rules. `outcome-reason` is populated for `partial` and `failed` and SHOULD summarize per-sub-skill state, for example: *"al-security-review failed (tool timeout); al-performance-review completed."*
## Output
Output conforms to the DO output contract, extended with `sub-results` and `skipped-sub-skills`. A populated example — both leaves ran, each produced findings:
```json
{
"skill": { "id": "al-code-review", "version": 1 },
"outcome": "completed",
"summary": {
"counts": { "blocker": 1, "major": 1, "minor": 3, "info": 0 },
"coverage": { "worklist-size": 4, "items-evaluated": 4 }
},
"findings": [
{
"id": "microsoft/knowledge/performance/filter-before-find.md",
"severity": "major",
"message": "FindSet is called on a record variable without any prior SetRange/SetFilter. This forces a full-table scan.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Sales/PostingRoutines.Codeunit.al",
"line": 140,
"range": { "start-line": 140, "end-line": 144 }
},
"references": [
{ "path": "microsoft/knowledge/performance/filter-before-find.md" }
],
"confidence": "high",
"from-sub-skill": "al-performance-review"
},
{
"id": "community/knowledge/performance/call-setloadfields-before-filters.md",
"severity": "minor",
"message": "SetLoadFields is called after SetRange. Per the referenced guidance the call must come before filters to be folded into the query plan.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Sales/PostingRoutines.Codeunit.al",
"line": 152
},
"references": [
{ "path": "community/knowledge/performance/call-setloadfields-before-filters.md" }
],
"confidence": "high",
"from-sub-skill": "al-performance-review"
},
{
"id": "microsoft/knowledge/security/use-secrettext-for-credentials.md",
"severity": "blocker",
"message": "A bearer token is declared as a Text parameter and passed through the HTTP request path as plain text. The referenced guidance requires credentials to flow as SecretText end-to-end.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Integration/ApiClient.Codeunit.al",
"line": 85,
"range": { "start-line": 85, "end-line": 89 }
},
"references": [
{ "path": "microsoft/knowledge/security/use-secrettext-for-credentials.md" }
],
"confidence": "high",
"from-sub-skill": "al-security-review"
},
{
"id": "microsoft/knowledge/security/never-hardcode-secrets-in-al.md",
"severity": "minor",
"message": "An API key is assigned from a string literal rather than retrieved from IsolatedStorage or Key Vault at runtime.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Integration/ApiClient.Codeunit.al",
"line": 201
},
"references": [
{ "path": "microsoft/knowledge/security/never-hardcode-secrets-in-al.md" }
],
"confidence": "medium",
"from-sub-skill": "al-security-review"
},
{
"id": "agent:missing-error-handling-on-http-client",
"severity": "minor",
"message": "HttpClient.Send is called without inspecting the response status or wrapping the call in a TryFunction. Network or remote-server failures will surface as runtime errors to the user. Recommendation: branch on the HttpResponseMessage.IsSuccessStatusCode and either retry, surface a controlled error, or fall back, depending on the integration's contract.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Integration/ApiClient.Codeunit.al",
"line": 60,
"range": { "start-line": 60, "end-line": 64 }
},
"references": [],
"confidence": "medium",
"from-sub-skill": "agent"
}
],
"suppressed": [],
"sub-results": [
{
"skill": { "id": "al-performance-review", "version": 1 },
"outcome": "completed",
"summary": {
"counts": { "blocker": 0, "major": 1, "minor": 1, "info": 0 },
"coverage": { "worklist-size": 2, "items-evaluated": 2 }
},
"findings": [
{
"id": "microsoft/knowledge/performance/filter-before-find.md",
"severity": "major",
"message": "FindSet is called on a record variable without any prior SetRange/SetFilter. This forces a full-table scan.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Sales/PostingRoutines.Codeunit.al",
"line": 140,
"range": { "start-line": 140, "end-line": 144 }
},
"references": [
{ "path": "microsoft/knowledge/performance/filter-before-find.md" }
],
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"id": "community/knowledge/performance/call-setloadfields-before-filters.md",
"severity": "minor",
"message": "SetLoadFields is called after SetRange. Per the referenced guidance the call must come before filters to be folded into the query plan.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Sales/PostingRoutines.Codeunit.al",
"line": 152
},
"references": [
{ "path": "community/knowledge/performance/call-setloadfields-before-filters.md" }
],
"confidence": "high"
}
],
"suppressed": []
},
{
"skill": { "id": "al-security-review", "version": 1 },
"outcome": "completed",
"summary": {
"counts": { "blocker": 1, "major": 0, "minor": 1, "info": 0 },
"coverage": { "worklist-size": 2, "items-evaluated": 2 }
},
"findings": [
{
"id": "microsoft/knowledge/security/use-secrettext-for-credentials.md",
"severity": "blocker",
"message": "A bearer token is declared as a Text parameter and passed through the HTTP request path as plain text. The referenced guidance requires credentials to flow as SecretText end-to-end.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Integration/ApiClient.Codeunit.al",
"line": 85,
"range": { "start-line": 85, "end-line": 89 }
},
"references": [
{ "path": "microsoft/knowledge/security/use-secrettext-for-credentials.md" }
],
"confidence": "high"
},
{
"id": "microsoft/knowledge/security/never-hardcode-secrets-in-al.md",
"severity": "minor",
"message": "An API key is assigned from a string literal rather than retrieved from IsolatedStorage or Key Vault at runtime.",
"location": {
"file": "src/Integration/ApiClient.Codeunit.al",
"line": 201
},
"references": [
{ "path": "microsoft/knowledge/security/never-hardcode-secrets-in-al.md" }
],
"confidence": "medium"
}
],
"suppressed": []
}
]
}
```
The empty-corpus case — BCQuality's state until knowledge files land — rolls up to `no-knowledge`:
```json
{
"skill": { "id": "al-code-review", "version": 1 },
"outcome": "no-knowledge",
"summary": {
"counts": { "blocker": 0, "major": 0, "minor": 0, "info": 0 },
"coverage": { "worklist-size": 0, "items-evaluated": 0 }
},
"findings": [],
"suppressed": [],
"sub-results": [
{
"skill": { "id": "al-performance-review", "version": 1 },
"outcome": "no-knowledge",
"summary": { "counts": { "blocker": 0, "major": 0, "minor": 0, "info": 0 }, "coverage": { "worklist-size": 0, "items-evaluated": 0 } },
"findings": [],
"suppressed": []
},
{
"skill": { "id": "al-security-review", "version": 1 },
"outcome": "no-knowledge",
"summary": { "counts": { "blocker": 0, "major": 0, "minor": 0, "info": 0 }, "coverage": { "worklist-size": 0, "items-evaluated": 0 } },
"findings": [],
"suppressed": []
}
]
}
```