skill-review

skill-review is a cursor rule for Cursor from jketreno/clare. It costs 6 tokens per session (4,745 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review procedure for examining all changes on a branch against a suitable base branch, such as main.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps determine the comparison branch and review changes for correctness, maintainability principles, security, language practices, tests, and documentation.
Why use it?
It reduces guessed conclusions by requiring the reviewer to inspect the real diff, surrounding code, tests, security, and documentation.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/jketreno/clare/skill-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jketreno/clare

Made for: Cursor.

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.

agentmods badge for skill-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/jketreno/clare/skill-review.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/rules/jketreno/clare/skill-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/rules/jketreno/clare/skill-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/rules/jketreno/clare/skill-review.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 6 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,745 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00006 $0.04745
Opus 5 $0.00003 $0.02372
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00949
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00475

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9bdce5057c6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-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 4d 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.

.cursor/rules/skill-review.mdc · 290 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 290 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.


name: review description: "Code review for correctness, KISS/DRY/YAGNI/SOLID, security, language BKMs, tests, and docs" mode: agent

Review Diff vs. Base Ref

Scope and Baseline

Review all changes on the current branch against an appropriate base ref — as if performing a thorough pull-request code review. Do not guess at correctness; read the actual diff and the relevant file context.


Step 1 — Determine the Base Ref

Resolve the base ref in priority order. Use the first one that succeeds:

  1. User-specified — if the user says "review vs main", "against origin/staging", etc., use that ref.
  2. Upstream tracking branchgit rev-parse --verify "upstream/$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null
  3. Origin tracking branch (same name)git rev-parse --verify "origin/$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD 2>/dev/null)" 2>/dev/null
  4. origin/maingit rev-parse --verify origin/main 2>/dev/null
  5. origin/mastergit rev-parse --verify origin/master 2>/dev/null
  6. Local maingit rev-parse --verify main 2>/dev/null
  7. Ask — if none resolve, say: "I couldn't determine a base branch. What should I diff against?"

Step 2 — Gather the Diff

# Unified diff from merge base (PR semantics — use triple-dot)
git diff <BASE_REF>...HEAD

# File summary (what changed at a glance)
git diff --stat <BASE_REF>...HEAD

# Untracked new files not yet committed
git status --short

Read the complete diff before beginning the review. Do not review hunks in isolation.


Step 3 — Load File Context

For every file that appears in the diff, read the full file — not just the changed hunks. This is required to:

  • Detect misuse of a new or changed API by its callers
  • Verify that error handling is consistent with the rest of the file
  • Identify invariants that the changed code may break
  • Confirm that imports, exports, and type signatures are consistent

Review Checklist

Apply every category below to every changed file. Do not skip a category because the change looks small — subtle bugs hide in small diffs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 290 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. 4d ago First seen · 290 lines · 6 tokens per session scan A 9bdce5057c6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-review is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository jketreno/clare (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6 tokens to every session and 4,745 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.