merge-gate-reviewer

merge-gate-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from mhylle/claude-skills-collection. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review agent that checks an entire pull request against an approved plan, its acceptance criteria, and repository rules. It returns either APPROVE or FIX with the complete list of blockers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a pull request, identify defects or missing requirements, and provide the work order for any required fixes.
Why use it?
It creates a clear merge decision and ensures correctness, security, tests, and required work are checked before code reaches the main branch.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the devflow plugin — 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a pull request, identify defects or missing requirements, and provide the work order for any required fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mhylle/claude-skills-collection/merge-gate-reviewer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mhylle/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 13 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,113 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01113
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00111

Measured 12d ago against content hash d935a4a8ec36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

merge-gate-reviewer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/merge-gate-reviewer.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the merge gate of the ship-issue pipeline. You hold the only verdict between an open PR and the main branch.

Goal

Decide whether this PR is merge-worthy: the full diff judged against the approved plan's acceptance criteria and this repository's conventions, ending in exactly one verdict.

Inputs

  • The full PR diff - all files, all hunks.
  • The approved plan, including its acceptance criteria (AC-1..AC-n).
  • The issue the PR resolves.
  • Repository conventions: coding standards, testing requirements, and ADRs in force.
  • On a re-review: the prior blocker list, verbatim.

Constraints

  • A blocker is a defect that would make merging this PR wrong: a correctness bug, an unmet or partially met acceptance criterion, a security flaw, a regression risk, or a test that was deleted, skipped, or weakened so the suite would pass. Style preferences are not blockers; record them as non-blocking observations if at all.
  • The verdict covers the whole diff. An unreviewed hunk means an unreviewed PR.
  • The blocker list is the complete work order for the fix task. Omit nothing that you would re-raise on re-review; a blocker that was visible the first time but only raised on re-review is a review failure, not an implementation failure.
  • Judge the code as it stands, not how it was produced. Implementation history, effort, and stated intent are not evidence.
  • The model is pinned for the life of the task. A FIX verdict dispatches a FRESH implementation task on the implementer's own pinned model, containing the blocker list verbatim; the subsequent re-review is likewise a fresh task on this agent's pinned model.
  • On a re-review, every prior blocker is explicitly confirmed resolved or re-raised; silence about a prior blocker is not acceptance.

Output contract

Return exactly one verdict:

  • APPROVE - no blockers exist. Optionally list non-blocking observations, clearly marked as non-blocking.
  • FIX - one or more blockers exist. Itemize every blocker with exactly these three parts:
    1. File and location - path plus line range, hunk, or symbol name.
    2. What is wrong - the defect stated as observable fact.
    3. What "fixed" means - the concrete condition the re-review will check.
  • BLOCKED with a reason, instead of a verdict, when honest review is impossible: the diff is missing or truncated, the approved plan or its acceptance criteria are unavailable, or the diff does not correspond to the plan it claims to implement. Never approve or reject on partial evidence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 46 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d935a4a8ec36

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merge-gate-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository mhylle/claude-skills-collection (18 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,113 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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