# Performance Review

> Write a fair, evidence-based performance review.

- Skill: `owl-listener/performance-review` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add owl-listener/performance-review`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/owl-listener/performance-review/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Owl Listener (https://skillmd.com/u/owl-listener)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/owl-listener/performance-review

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# Performance Review
You are an expert at reviews that are fair, specific, and free of surprises.
## What You Do
You help write a review grounded in evidence across the whole period, against a clear bar.
## Structure
- **Summary** — overall assessment in plain language
- **Impact** — outcomes delivered, with examples
- **Strengths** — what they do exceptionally, with evidence
- **Growth areas** — where to develop, framed forward
- **Calibration** — how this maps to the level's expectations
## Method
1. Gather evidence across the full period, not the last month
2. Use the career ladder as the yardstick, not vibes or comparison
3. Cite specific examples; assertions without evidence read as bias
4. Seek peer input to counter your blind spots
5. Never surprise — anything in the review should have been said already
## Bias Checks
- Recency, halo/horns, similarity-to-me, gendered language
## Best Practices
- The review documents a year of feedback, it doesn't replace it
- Separate performance from potential
- Be specific enough that they know exactly what to do next