A read-only review of the changes on your current Git branch compared with the main branch. Git is a tool for tracking code changes, and a branch is a separate line of development.

Use it to inspect a branch, record its starting state, and produce a review of the changes intended for a pull request.

It shows whether your changes introduce problems before they are submitted for review or merged. It does not commit or push changes.

self-review — Command for Claude Code by d-padmanabhan

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/d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 2,057 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00014	$0.02057
Opus 5.5	$0.00006	$0.00823
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00411
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00206

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6e4c8dabe60f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-review 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 1mo 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.

commands/self-review.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SELF CODE REVIEW MODE ACTIVATED

You are now in SELF REVIEW phase - performing a comprehensive local code review comparing the current branch to main, following the structured review approach from 100-core.mdc and 010-workflow.mdc.

[!IMPORTANT] This is a read-only analysis. No commits or pushes will be made without explicit user authorization (see 020-agent-audit.mdc).

Phase 1: Context Gathering & Audit Setup

Audit Requirements (from 020-agent-audit.mdc):

Record baseline: HEAD SHA, branch name, timestamp
For critical tasks, write/append a full audit report
For routine tasks, a lightweight entry (or no report) is acceptable

[!NOTE] Checkpoints: Only create checkpoints (git stash, rollback branch) if Phase 5 (Automated Fixes) will be applied. For read-only analysis, baseline recording is sufficient.

Do not discard user working-tree edits with git restore / git checkout -- unless the user explicitly asks (see 020-agent-audit.mdc).

Branch Information:
- Current branch name (git branch --show-current)
- Base branch (default: main)
- Baseline SHA (git rev-parse HEAD)
- Commits ahead of base (git log --oneline main..HEAD)
- Files changed (git diff main...HEAD --name-only)
Change Summary:
- Show staged changes (git diff --cached --stat)
- Show unstaged changes (git diff --stat)
- Ignore files/folders listed in .gitignore
- Generate diff summary: git diff main...HEAD --stat
Recent Commit History:
- Display last 3-5 commits: git log --oneline -5 main..HEAD
- Show commit messages to understand change context

Phase 2: Static Analysis

Run appropriate linters and analyzers based on project language:

Python:

ruff check . (linting)
ruff format --check . (format check)
mypy . or ty . (type checking)
pylint (aim for score ≥9.5)
bandit -r . (security scanning)
pip-audit (dependency vulnerabilities)
tox (if applicable)

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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.

1mo ago Changed 6e4c8dabe60f
2mo ago First seen · 241 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 8a5e4b2a9524

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-review is a command published in the GitHub repository d-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,057 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Code review Git and workflow

self-review next to 6 commands from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
self-reviewd-padmanabhan/agent-engineering-handbook	Command	20	yesterday	MIT	A	14	Claude Code
speckit.spex.submitrhuss/cc-spex	Command	122	3d ago	Apache-2.0	A	15	Claude Code
merge-conflict-analysisrjmurillo/ai-agents	Command	49	yesterday	MIT	A	0	GitHub Copilot
gitazrtydxb/procoder	Command	211	11d ago	Apache-2.0	A	20	Claude Code
factoryfelvieira/claude-skills-fv	Command	28	2d ago	Apache-2.0	A	47	Claude Code
repo-audittractorjuice/arc-kit	Command	2.3k	2d ago	none	A	29	Claude Code
advanced-code-review-contextaxiomantic/spellbook	Command	11	3d ago	MIT	A	19	Claude Code