reviewing-instructions

reviewing-instructions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexei-led/cc-thingz. It costs 80 tokens per session (1,575 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for files that instruct AI agents, such as `SKILL.md`, `AGENTS.md`, prompts, and policies. It evaluates how clearly those instructions route work, define outputs, handle failures, and stay grounded.

In plain words
What is it for?
Linting, auditing, reviewing, scoring, comparing, or ranking AI-facing instruction files.
Why use it?
It helps identify instructions that are ambiguous, incomplete, or likely to produce inconsistent results from different models.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Linting, auditing, reviewing, scoring, comparing, or ranking AI-facing instruction files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexei-led/cc-thingz/reviewing-instructions
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 alexei-led/cc-thingz --skill reviewing-instructions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexei-led/cc-thingz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,575 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00080 $0.01575
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00158

Measured 12d ago against content hash b45ecaf3f815, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reviewing-instructions 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/lint-instructions.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

src/skills/reviewing-instructions/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instruction Review

Review AI-facing instruction files for routing precision, behavioral signal, output contracts, failure handling, grounding, and score stability. Do not score ordinary docs or source code.

Read first

  • references/scoring-rubric.md for gates, 0-10 bands, caps, confidence, and output schema.
  • references/model-resolution.md for model alias mapping and fallback rules.
  • references/skill-architecture.md only when reviewing SKILL.md, AGENT.md, body.md, or agent-facing references loaded by them.
  • references/calibration.md only when a score is borderline or confidence is low.
  • references/models/<family>.md only after model family resolution.

Accepted inputs

The user may pass:

  • file path, directory path, or plugin name
  • omitted scope, meaning discover likely instruction files
  • --model <name> to override model family or variant
  • requests such as lint, audit, review, score, compare, or rerank

A name without a path separator expands to matching src/skills/<name> or src/agents/<name>.md. If it matches src/.agentbundler/packages/<name>.json, use the package JSON only as routing evidence for agent-facing markdown or prompt files when the user explicitly asks for instruction scoring. Route plugin manifest review to evolving-config.

Scope boundaries

Review only markdown or prompt files that guide an AI agent or coding assistant. Include support files only when an entrypoint tells the agent to read them or when they live under that skill or agent folder. For plugins, score only agent-facing markdown or prompt files; never score package JSON.

Do not review:

  • application source code, tests, or generated artifacts
  • ordinary README, changelog, product, or design docs unless agent-facing
  • package manifests such as src/.agentbundler/packages/*.json; use evolving-config
  • harness config quality; use evolving-config
  • code quality; use reviewing-code

If a candidate is ambiguous, put it in Candidates Not Reviewed with the reason.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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 · 182 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A b45ecaf3f815

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reviewing-instructions is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexei-led/cc-thingz (35 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,575 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.