review-agent

review-agent is a skill for Claude Code from Abilityai/abilities. It costs 60 tokens per session (4,810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only audit for an existing coding agent. It examines the agent's instructions, task skills, structure, and Trinity readiness, then reports prioritized findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before deployment, during maintenance, or when checking an agent against development practices.
Why use it?
It shows what may be incomplete or inconsistent without changing the project, so you can decide which fixes to apply.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the create-agent plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before deployment, during maintenance, or when checking an agent against development practices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abilityai/abilities/review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install create-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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 review-agent

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for review-agent

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,810 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 6 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 14
    Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
  • high Agent Snooping · line 59
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
  • high Agent Snooping · line 138
    Skill accesses MCP server configuration files (mcp.json). MCP configs contain server URLs, authentication tokens, and tool definitions — reading them allows the skill to discover and potentially abuse other tool integrations.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that read MCP configuration files (mcp.json). MCP server details should be managed by the agent runtime, not read by individual skills.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 139
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 46
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 59
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.04810
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.01924
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00962
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00481

Measured 7d ago against content hash 987150933fae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-agent scanned grade A with 2 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 7d 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.

Reads MCP configurationlowAgent snooping

mcp.json carries server URLs and auth tokens; reading it lets a mod discover and abuse other integrations.

- `.gitignore` excluding `.env`, `.env.*`, `.mcp.json`, `credentials.json`, `*.pem`, `*.key`, `.claude/projects/`, `.claude/todos/`, `.claude/plugins/`, and `.trinity/*` with the authored hooks negated. `.claude/settings

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

Enumerates other installed skillslowAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

ls CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null && ls -d .claude/skills 2>/dev/null

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/create-agent/skills/review/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Agent

ℹ️ First, set expectations: before anything else, print one short line with this skill's version and its most recent change — the top entry of metadata.changelog above — e.g. review-agent vX.Y — recent: <summary>. Then proceed.

Audit an existing agent against best practices and produce a findings report. Read-only by construction — this skill has no Write/Edit tools and changes nothing. It is the detect-and-report half of the pair; /adjust-agent (agent-level) and /agent-dev:adjust-playbook (skill-level) are the apply half.

This skill is the single source of truth for the agent audit rubric. /adjust-agent invokes this skill to get its findings rather than duplicating the checks.

When to Use

  • "review this agent", "audit my agent", "check best practices"
  • Periodic health check on an established agent
  • Before deploying or hardening an agent
  • To apply fixes after reviewing → run /adjust-agent or /agent-dev:adjust-playbook

Step 1: Locate and Read the Agent

If $0 (path) provided, use it. Otherwise assume the current working directory.

Verify it's an agent:

ls CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null && ls -d .claude/skills 2>/dev/null

If CLAUDE.md doesn't exist, ask for the correct path.

Read all agent artifacts (a missing one is itself a finding):

  1. CLAUDE.md
  2. README.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, TARGET-ARCHITECTURE.md (a missing one is a Documentation Coherence finding)
  3. template.yaml
  4. .env.example
  5. .gitignore
  6. .mcp.json.template or .mcp.json
  7. All SKILL.md files: find .claude/skills -name "SKILL.md" 2>/dev/null
  8. Any subagents: ls .claude/agents/*.md 2>/dev/null
  9. Top-level listing: ls -la

If $ARGUMENTS names a focus area (e.g. "composition", "schedules", "trinity"), audit only that area; otherwise run the full audit.


Step 2: Audit

Evaluate each area and assign a status:

  • PASS — meets best practice, no change needed
  • IMPROVE — present but incomplete
  • MISSING — not present at all

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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. 7d ago Changed · +1 lines 987150933fae
  2. 16d ago Changed · +2 lines e9af32c8dec5
  3. 24d ago Changed · +2 lines f643772f5aaf
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines a0a1331d920e
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 244 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A a6786a2c6178

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 4,810 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 2 findings (reads mcp configuration, enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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