review-router

review-router is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering. It costs 137 tokens per session (2,282 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review router that decides which kinds of review a code change needs and runs only those reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for selecting code, security, accessibility, performance, design, or build checks for a change.
Why use it?
It avoids running every review for every change by considering the diff's scope, risk, evidence, and review cost.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for selecting code, security, accessibility, performance, design, or build checks for a change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering/review-router
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 arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering --skill review-router
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,282 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 $0.00137 $0.02282
Opus 5.5 $0.00055 $0.00913
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00228

Measured 1mo ago against content hash d392bfc8fc8d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-router 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.

skills/ai-verify/tiers/3-chain/review-router/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Route the review

full-review spawns up to five reasoning agents that each read a real amount of code. On a four-line diff that is more expensive than the change was, and the extra lanes return nothing — which trains people to stop running reviews at all. This skill makes the lane selection a decision based on evidence in the diff, rather than a habit.

You decide which lanes run and how deep. You perform no review yourself.

Two rules bound everything below:

  • Never route to zero lanes on a diff that touches first-party source. If the change is genuinely trivial, that is build-check plus a targeted code-audit, not silence.
  • Name what you skipped and why, in the output. A lane that was never run must never read as a lane that came back clean. This is the same failure full-review guards against when an agent dies.

1. Resolve scope and stack once

Per .claude/review/CONVENTIONS.md §1 and §3. Resolve both here, exactly once, and pass the identical strings to every agent you spawn. Agents that resolve their own scope drift apart and their findings stop being comparable — and in a monorepo they can legitimately land on different stacks, which silently produces reviews of different things.

2. Measure the diff before you classify it

Get the shape of the change from git, not from a guess:

git diff <base>...HEAD --stat
git diff <base>...HEAD --name-only

Record: files changed, lines added/removed, and which subsystems are touched. Then subtract everything CONVENTIONS.md §3 excludes — lockfiles, generated clients, build output, vendored code. A 4,000-line diff that is 3,900 lines of lockfile is a 100-line diff, and misreading that is the most common way a router over-spends.

If, after exclusions, the change touches no first-party source at all — docs only, config comments, a lockfile refresh — say so and stop. Offer build-check alone. Do not spawn reasoning agents to review prose.

3. Map evidence to lanes

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 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. 1mo ago First seen · 159 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A d392bfc8fc8d

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review-router is a skill published in the GitHub repository arcasilesgroup/ai-engineering (61 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 2,282 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-12.

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