review-by-opp:start

review-by-opp:start is a skill for Claude Code from akshan-main/review-by-opp. It costs 39 tokens per session (600 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts a guarded implementation and code-review session called review-by-opp. It records review rounds and findings in a Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when changes need an independent review, recorded findings, and a final stop gate before completion.
Why use it?
It sets up a tracked review process before implementation work begins, including checks that the project and Codex CLI are available.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the review-by-opp plugin — 7 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when changes need an independent review, recorded findings, and a final stop gate before completion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/akshan-main/review-by-opp/start
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 akshan-main/review-by-opp --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/akshan-main/review-by-opp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install review-by-opp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 600 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 $0.00039 $0.00600
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00300
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00060

Measured 10d ago against content hash 69a14fa4717f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-by-opp:start 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 10d 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.

skills/start/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

You are starting a review-by-opp session. This activates strict review tracking.

What to do

  1. Check prerequisites:

    • Verify this is a git repository. If not, tell the user: "review-by-opp requires a git repo. Run git init first."
    • Check if a session already exists by looking for reviews/current.json. If one exists, ask: "A session is already active. Use /review-by-opp:resume to continue or /review-by-opp:finalize to close it first."
  2. Initialize session:

    • Create the reviews/ directory structure: reviews/current.json, reviews/rounds/, reviews/summaries/
    • Load config from .review-by-opp.json if it exists, otherwise use defaults
    • Write initial reviews/current.json with:
      {
        "session_id": "<uuid>",
        "started_at": "<iso-timestamp>",
        "updated_at": "<iso-timestamp>",
        "current_round": 0,
        "max_rounds": 4,
        "findings": [],
        "rounds": [],
        "final_verdict": null,
        "config": { ... }
      }
      
  3. Check for Codex:

    • Run npx @openai/codex --help to verify Codex CLI is available
    • If not installed, tell user: "Install Codex: npm install -g @openai/codex then npx @openai/codex login"
  4. Report status:

    • Show session ID, max rounds, review scope, and blocking severities
    • Show Codex detection status
    • Show Claude model/effort: "user-controlled (via Claude Code UI)"
    • Show Codex config: model strategy, reasoning effort
  5. Set the rules: Tell the user:

    Review ledger session started. Rules:

    • After implementing changes, run /review-by-opp:review to get Codex feedback
    • Use /review-by-opp:fix to address findings
    • Use /review-by-opp:status to check progress
    • You cannot finalize until all blocking findings are resolved
    • Use /review-by-opp:finalize when ready to close

CRITICAL: You are the builder. Codex is the auditor. You must not claim work is complete while blocking findings remain open. The stop gate enforces this.

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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. 10d ago First seen · 55 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 69a14fa4717f

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review-by-opp:start is a skill published in the GitHub repository akshan-main/review-by-opp (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 600 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.