three-way-review

three-way-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anaxite/agent-skills. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,237 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A file-review method that asks three independent reviewers to examine text from different viewpoints: critical, positive, and balanced.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review prose, Markdown, code, or configuration files when you want a devil’s-advocate review and a combined set of findings.
Why use it?
A single reviewer may overlook problems or useful strengths because of their initial bias. Comparing three perspectives can reveal issues one viewpoint misses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to review prose, Markdown, code, or configuration files when you want a devil’s-advocate review and a combined set of findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anaxite/agent-skills/three-way-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 anaxite/agent-skills --skill three-way-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anaxite/agent-skills

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 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,237 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 $0.00119 $0.01237
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00619
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00124

Measured 11d ago against content hash 8b3e2c6fd386, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

three-way-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 11d 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/three-way-review/SKILL.md · 147 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 147 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Three-Way Review

Dispatches three independent subagents to review one or more files from distinct starting perspectives, then synthesizes their findings. Each subagent approaches the content as a reviewer with a different personality: one skeptical and critical, one generous and appreciative, one balanced with no prior lean. The goal is to surface insights that a single perspective would miss.

This skill requires subagents. If the environment does not support subagent dispatch, tell the user and stop. This skill requires textual content. Do not use this skill to review binary files.


Step 0: Confirm environment

Check that subagents can be dispatched. If not, explain the limitation and stop.


Step 1: Understand the files

Load and read each file. For each file:

  • Note its type (prose, markdown, code, config, etc.)
  • Note its apparent purpose
  • Estimate its size

Then assess relationships between files (see "Multi-file handling" below).

Size check — do this before proceeding:

  • If total content across all files exceeds 200KB, warn the user explicitly and ask whether they want to proceed. Explain that reviews may be incomplete or sampled.
  • If content is under 200KB but there are many files, use a temporary staging area (e.g. a project-approved temp location, or "project memory" in environments that support memory) to avoid passing oversized context to subagents.

Step 2: Multi-file handling

If more than one file is provided:

  1. Infer relationships first. Look for: shared imports or links, matching terminology, complementary structure (e.g., a spec and its implementation), overlapping concepts, or naming conventions that group them. Check surrounding files in the same directory if accessible; those may clarify context.

  2. If the relationship is clear, proceed. Note the relationship briefly so subagents can factor it in.

  3. If the relationship is unclear, ask the user before dispatching subagents:

    "Before I start, I want to confirm these files are meant to be reviewed together. Can you describe how they relate?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 147 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 147 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 8b3e2c6fd386

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three-way-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository anaxite/agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,237 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.