Summary

The code-review collection contains only three artifacts (1 agent, 1 prompt, 1 shared instruction) and is too small to justify a standalone marketplace extension. Its functional code review agent and prompt fit naturally under the coding-standards collection, which already provides language-specific conventions and quality tooling. Merging the two simplifies the extension landscape and reduces user confusion when choosing which collection to install.

Current State

code-review collection (3 items)

Description: Analyze branch diffs before opening pull requests to catch functional defects early. Provides agents that review changed code for logic errors, edge case gaps, error handling deficiencies, and behavioral bugs.

coding-standards collection (10 items)

Description: Enforce language-specific coding conventions and best practices across your projects.

Proposed Changes

1. Merge artifacts into coding-standards

Add the code-review agent and prompt to coding-standards.collection.yml:

  # Agents
  - path: .github/agents/code-review/functional-code-review.agent.md
    kind: agent
  # Prompts
  - path: .github/prompts/code-review/functional-code-review.prompt.md
    kind: prompt

After the merge, coding-standards grows to 12 items (1 agent, 1 prompt, 10 instructions).

2. Update coding-standards.collection.md

Expand the description to include the code review capabilities:

Enforce language-specific coding conventions and review code for functional correctness. This collection provides instructions for bash, Bicep, C#, PowerShell, Python, and Terraform that are automatically applied based on file patterns, plus agents for pre-PR code review.

Add to the item list:

• Functional Code Review — Diff-based reviewer that identifies logic errors, concurrency issues, contract violations, and testing gaps with severity-ordered findings and concrete fixes
• Functional Code Review Prompt — Quick-launch prompt that delegates to the functional code review agent with base branch input

3. Remove code-review collection files

Delete:

• collections/code-review.collection.yml
• collections/code-review.collection.md

4. Update hve-core-all collection

In collections/hve-core-all.collection.yml, remove any items sourced from the code-review collection that now overlap with coding-standards entries. Verify no duplicates after the merge.

5. Regenerate plugins

Run npm run plugin:generate to regenerate plugin outputs after the collection changes.

6. Update any cross-references

Search for references to the code-review collection across:

• docs/ pages
• extension/ packaging templates
• README.md
• .github/instructions/ and .github/agents/

Update or remove references as appropriate.

Acceptance Criteria

• coding-standards.collection.yml includes the functional code review agent and prompt
• coding-standards.collection.md describes both coding standards and code review capabilities
• code-review.collection.yml and code-review.collection.md are deleted
• hve-core-all.collection.yml has no duplicate entries
• npm run plugin:generate succeeds and outputs are committed
• npm run lint:collections-metadata passes
• npm run lint:marketplace passes
• No broken references to the removed code-review collection remain in docs or config

Related

• feat(docs): Simplify extension install experience with collection showcase and guided RPI tutorial #859 — Collections overview page references this merger