auto-eng-review

auto-eng-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from appautomaton/automaton. It costs 22 tokens per session (1,036 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An optional engineering review of a software plan before implementation, covering architecture, data flow, edge cases, and testing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify the riskiest work slice, likely failure modes, test coverage gaps, and whether the plan is safe to execute.
Why use it?
It can reveal execution risks and missing safeguards before code is changed, without reopening the product scope.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps identify the riskiest work slice, likely failure modes, test coverage gaps, and whether the plan is safe to execute.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/appautomaton/automaton/auto-eng-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 appautomaton/automaton --skill auto-eng-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appautomaton/automaton

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.

agentmods badge for auto-eng-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/appautomaton/automaton/auto-eng-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/appautomaton/automaton/auto-eng-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/appautomaton/automaton/auto-eng-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/appautomaton/automaton/auto-eng-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 auto-eng-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/appautomaton/automaton/auto-eng-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/appautomaton/automaton/auto-eng-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,036 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 $0.00022 $0.01036
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00104

Measured 10d ago against content hash 366c3bb95449, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

auto-eng-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 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/auto-eng-review/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

auto-eng-review

Optional engineering-safety review. Validates that a plan is safe to execute before implementation begins.

First action: run node .agent/.automaton/scripts/get-context.mjs from the project root.

Preamble

Execution safety review. Architecture, data flow, edge cases, test strategy, not product vision. It does not change the plan's content or reopen product scope; its only write is appending its own ## Review: Engineering section. Identifies risks that could cause failure, stalling, or rework.

A good review names the riskiest slice, the most likely failure mode, and whether the test strategy catches it. A bad review lists generic concerns.

Loading discipline: one PLAN.md read, optional DESIGN.md when canonical_design exists, one risk matrix, one verdict. Read source files when assessing technical risk: slice boundaries, dependency assumptions, and blast radius claims are only verifiable against the actual code.

Quality Gate

Before appending the engineering review:

  • Ground concerns in slices, file areas, commands, or missing artifacts.
  • Separate blockers from follow-up cleanup.
  • Avoid reopening product scope unless the plan is unbuildable.
  • Read references/quality.md when findings are generic or unactionable.

Do

Do NOT proceed unless:

  • canonical_plan is set and PLAN.md is readable.

If the plan is missing or unreadable, set verdict to needs_correction and stop.

Load State

Read the canonical PLAN.md. Read DESIGN.md only when canonical_design is set and resolves to a file. An unset pointer means the plan intentionally has no design artifact; continue without it. A set pointer with a missing file is stale: report it and continue (DESIGN.md is optional here).

Restate the Plan

In engineering terms: what is being built, what systems does it touch, and what is the critical path?

Evaluate Risks

Use this matrix as an internal checklist. Apply standards from references/prime-directives.md while evaluating.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 10d ago First seen · 97 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 366c3bb95449

Subscribe to this mod's changes

auto-eng-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository appautomaton/automaton (21 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,036 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

wiki-ingest

Ingest a source into the project wiki as OKF v0.2 markdown. Point at a file, PR, or doc and the wiki-curator extracts knowledge, writes YAML frontmatter, and updates relevant concept pages.

rretsiem/opencode-hive · 49 tokens

wiki-lint

Health-check the project wiki for OKF v0.2 conformance — missing frontmatter, missing type:, malformed index.md/log.md, stale pages past staleafter, broken cross-references, and coverage gaps.

rretsiem/opencode-hive · 55 tokens

agent-carnet

Use this skill when the user asks to save, recall, find, or organize notes. Triggers on: 'remember this', 'save this', 'note this', 'what did we discuss about...', 'check the notebook', 'find in carnet'. Also use proactively when discovering findings worth preserving across sessions.

yamadashy/repomix · 67 tokens

deploy-docker-compose

Run the Omnigent server as a Docker compose stack (server + Postgres) on any Docker host — your laptop, a VPS, EC2 by hand, or as the base layer of any container-platform deploy. Invoke when the user wants to build the image, bring up the compose stack, debug the stack on a host they already have, or extend the stack…

omnigent-ai/omnigent · 84 tokens

security-audit

Audit a codebase or directory for security issues (hardcoded secrets, injection, unsafe deserialization, weak crypto, authz gaps) and produce a structured findings report. Use when the user asks for a security review, an audit, or to check code for vulnerabilities. Report only — never fix.

omnigent-ai/omnigent · 64 tokens

taiyi-ui-design

A design-planning guide for describing how an application's user interface should look and behave. It produces a UI-DESIGN.md document covering layouts, components, interactions, accessibility, and error states.

Dong90/oh-my-taiyiforge · 35 tokens