{"slug":"nextjs-app-router-data-fetching-review","title":"nextjs-app-router-data-fetching-review","summary":"Statically review Next.js App Router Server/Client Component boundaries and Server Action data mutations for correct data-fetching placement, bundle-leak risk, and authorization-trust integrity, escalating client-trusted authorization to a security finding rather than a style not","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:15.325135Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: nextjs-app-router-data-fetching-review\ndescription: Statically review Next.js App Router Server/Client Component boundaries and Server Action data mutations for correct data-fetching placement, bundle-leak risk, and authorization-trust integrity, escalating client-trusted authorization to a security finding rather than a style note.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-02\"\ncategory: architecture</h2>\n<h1>Next.js App Router Data Fetching Review</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Review the Server Component / Client Component boundary (<code>'use client'</code> placement and its import graph) and Server Action (<code>'use server'</code>) authorization logic in a Next.js App Router codebase, without re-litigating rendering mode, <code>fetch()</code> caching, or component decomposition in every response. This skill exists so bundle-leak risk and Server Action authorization-trust defects stay the focus, and so those adjacent concerns stay out of scope.</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>review a <code>'use client'</code>/<code>'use server'</code> boundary in a diff or PR,</li>\n<li>determine whether a Server Action correctly authorizes its caller,</li>\n<li>investigate a report that server-only code or a secret appears to be reaching the browser bundle.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Do not use this skill for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>pure UI/styling changes with no data-fetching or boundary change,</li>\n<li>Pages Router API routes (<code>pages/api/*</code>) — different security model, not Server Actions; use general API-route review instead,</li>\n<li>rendering-mode selection (static/ISR/dynamic) or <code>fetch()</code> cache-configuration review — that is <code>nextjs-rendering-caching-review</code>,</li>\n<li>component decomposition or state-placement review with no boundary or Server Action involved — that is <code>react-component-architecture-review</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Context7 Documentation Protocol</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolve <code>/vercel/next.js</code> with <code>resolve-library-id</code> before citing any Server Component restriction or Server Action security claim.</li>\n<li>Before asserting what is or is not safe to import into a Client Component, or what a Server Action must re-verify, read the repo's <code>package.json</code> to confirm the installed Next.js major version, then call <code>query-docs</code> scoped to that version for \"Server Actions security\" and \"Server Components restrictions.\" The exact bundling/serialization rules and the availability of the Taint API (<code>experimental_taintObjectReference</code> / <code>experimental_taintUniqueValue</code>, gated behind <code>experimental.taint</code> in <code>next.config</code>) are version-specific.</li>\n<li>If Context7 is unavailable, fall back to the <code>official_docs</code> URLs in this skill's <code>metadata.json</code> and label the claim <code>documentation-based, unverified against current release</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Server Components are the App Router default; <code>'use client'</code> is an opt-in boundary marker at the top of a file, above imports. Once a file is marked <code>'use client'</code>, everything it imports and directly renders is included in the client bundle — trace that import graph, do not eyeball the single file.</li>\n<li>Treat a Client Component's import graph reaching a server-only module (a DB/ORM client, a module reading a non-<code>NEXT_PUBLIC_</code>-prefixed env var, filesystem access, or any module importing <code>server-only</code>) as a HIGH-severity bundle-leak finding. This is the hard security gate for this skill's boundary half.</li>\n<li>A Server Action's arguments (including <code>FormData</code>) are fully client-controlled, even though the function body runs on the server. Treat any Server Action that derives its authorization decision from its own input parameters or <code>FormData</code> — instead of re-deriving identity from the server-side session (<code>cookies()</code>, an <code>auth()</code>/session helper) — as a HIGH-severity Broken Access Control finding (OWASP Top Ten A01), not a style note.</li>\n<li>Page-level or layout-level authentication/authorization checks do not extend into a Server Action invoked from that page. Each Server Action must independently re-verify session and, for resource-scoped mutations, ownership/role — absence of that re-check is a defect even if an upstream page already checked auth.</li>\n<li>Do not recommend converting a Client Component to a Server Component without first checking it doesn't rely on browser-only APIs, local state, effects, or event handlers — that breaks functionality, it does not fix a boundary defect.</li>\n<li>Do not flag every <code>'use client'</code> directive as a problem. Only flag it when the boundary is placed higher than the smallest interactive leaf needs, or when its import graph leaks server-only code.</li>\n<li>Never execute, build, or run application code as part of this review; this is a static-review skill (Read/Grep/Glob only).</li>\n<li>Treat any hardcoded API key, token, session secret, or credential found in a Server Action, Client Component, or example data as a HIGH-severity finding requiring immediate escalation, not a boundary note.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">Review workflow and findings contract</a> — use for the step-by-step review procedure, the bundle-leak trace method, the authorization decision tree, and the required output shape.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/owasp-a01-broken-access-control.md\">OWASP A01 — Broken Access Control</a> — load only when a Server Action authorization finding is present, to ground the finding's severity and framing.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>per-boundary table (<code>'use client'</code> file, traced import-graph leak or clean, evidence file:line),</li>\n<li>per-Server-Action table (action, authorization source used, verdict),</li>\n<li>ranked findings with file:line, risk class, and fix,</li>\n<li>the Next.js major version the claims were verified against,</li>\n<li>verdict: approve / approve-with-notes / block,</li>\n<li>evidence level and open questions.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1806,"isText":true},{"path":"references/owasp-a01-broken-access-control.md","sizeBytes":4053,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":9337,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5727,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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