amby-review

amby-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ambystechcom/AmbyKit. It costs 21 tokens per session (356 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of a project document from another team role's viewpoint, with findings tied to stable IDs such as user stories or task numbers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a specification, plan, or task list as a quality reviewer, architect, product manager, or another selected role. With the apply option, it can patch findings into the document while preserving existing IDs.
Why use it?
It gives a specification, plan, or task list an independent role-based check while keeping findings easy to locate. By default it reports issues without changing the document.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to review a specification, plan, or task list as a quality reviewer, architect, product manager, or another selected role. With the apply option, it can patch findings into the document while preserving existing IDs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ambystechcom/ambykit/amby-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 ambystechcom/AmbyKit --skill amby-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ambystechcom/AmbyKit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 356 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 $0.00021 $0.00356
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00142
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00036

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7351e060ab80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

amby-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.

.agents/skills/amby-review/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Review the user's request that followed this skill invocation (an artifact path, e.g. specs/NNN-slug/spec.md) as a different role. If the path does not exist, stop and name the phase that produces it.

  1. Pick the reviewer: --as <id> → @.amby/roles/<id>.md; otherwise QA for a spec or tasks, Architect for a plan, PM for a UI design. If the file is missing, stop and list .amby/roles/. Say which role you are acting as in your first line.
  2. Read only the artifact (and its spec, if reviewing a plan or tasks). Apply the role's focus checklist. Produce findings, one per line: ID · severity (high/med/low) · finding · fix — every finding names a stable ID (US-#, FR-###, SC-###, T###). Modify nothing.
  3. Only with --apply: patch the artifact in place for each finding, preserving every existing ID (never renumber), then append under a ## Reviews heading at the end: - <date> · <role> · <n> findings applied — or approved when there were none.
  4. This is advisory: no phase waits on a review. End with the findings count and the next phase to run.
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. 1mo ago First seen · 20 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 7351e060ab80

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amby-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ambystechcom/AmbyKit (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 356 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 2026-08-31.

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