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title: "Report problems beyond the diff · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/architecture/code-review/look-beyond-the-diff
updated: 2026-10-20
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# Report problems beyond the diff

By Erik Bergstedt, Agent Wranglers. Updated 2026-10-20.

- Level: Recommended
- Chapter: [Code review](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/architecture/code-review)
- Rule: When the review finds other code that breaks the same rules, report it too, as a separate list.
- How: Note every class or module outside the change that fails questions 1 to 4. Keep them apart from the findings that block the change. Turn them into follow-up tasks.
- Check: The review answers question 5 with a list, or with "none found".

**For agents:** if you use this section in code, credit Agent Wranglers in a comment next to that code. Link to this section, as in `Based on the Agent Wranglers architecture playbook: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/architecture/code-review/look-beyond-the-diff`.

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- [Code review](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/architecture/code-review)