Reading code line by line is slow and rarely necessary. What matters is recognising risk. Most changes are cosmetic or boilerplate. A few are dangerous. Tell them apart and you can move fast safely.
Safe to approve quickly
- Adding a new page or component.
- Changing colors, fonts, copy.
- Renaming variables or files.
- Reordering items in a list.
- Adding tests, comments, or documentation.
Slow down and read carefully
- Anything touching wallet logic, signing, or addresses.
- Anything that talks to the network (RPC calls, API endpoints).
- Anything that writes to a file outside the project folder.
- Any deploy, publish, or push command.
- Any change Claude calls a "minor refactor" but that touches more than three files.
When unsure, ask Claude to explain the change in one sentence before approving. If the explanation does not match what you asked for, reject and try again.