thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review

thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review is a skill for Claude Code from asteasolutions/ai-toolkit. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,477 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review, MIT.

A strict review procedure for judging whether changed code is easy to maintain and sensibly structured. It looks for oversized files, tangled conditions, weak abstractions, and unnecessary complexity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for deep code-quality reviews of branch or pull-request changes, especially when checking modularity, readability, abstraction choices, and long-term codebase health.
Why use it?
It helps identify code that works today but may become difficult to understand or change. The review can suggest broader restructuring when that would simplify the implementation without changing its behavior.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it for deep code-quality reviews of branch or pull-request changes, especially when checking modularity, readability, abstraction choices, and long-term codebase health.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/asteasolutions/ai-toolkit/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-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 asteasolutions/ai-toolkit --skill thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/asteasolutions/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,477 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00054 $0.02477
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01239
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00248

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3fe9fb20c10a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thermo-nuclear-code-quality-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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thermo-Nuclear Code Quality Review

Use this skill for an unusually strict review focused on implementation quality, maintainability, abstraction quality, and codebase health.

Above all, this skill should push the reviewer to be ambitious about code structure. Do not merely identify local cleanup opportunities. Actively search for "code judo" moves: restructurings that preserve behavior while making the implementation dramatically simpler, smaller, more direct, and more elegant.

Core Prompt

Start from this baseline:

Perform a deep code quality audit of the current branch's changes. Rethink how to structure / implement the changes to meaningfully improve code quality without impacting behavior. Work to improve abstractions, modularity, reduce Spaghetti code, improve succinctness and legibility. Be ambitious, if there is a clear path to improving the implementation that involves restructuring some of the codebase, go for it. Be extremely thorough and rigorous. Measure twice, cut once.

Non-Negotiable Additional Standards

Apply the baseline prompt above, plus these explicit review rules:

  1. Be ambitious about structural simplification.

    • Do not stop at "this could be a bit cleaner."
    • Look for opportunities to reframe the change so that whole branches, helpers, modes, conditionals, or layers disappear entirely.
    • Prefer the solution that makes the code feel inevitable in hindsight.
    • Assume there is often a "code judo" move available: a re-organization that uses the existing architecture more effectively and makes the change dramatically simpler and more elegant.
    • If you see a path to delete complexity rather than rearrange it, push hard for that path.
  2. Do not let a PR push a file from under 1k lines to over 1k lines without a very strong reason.

    • Treat this as a strong code-quality smell by default.
    • Prefer extracting helpers, subcomponents, modules, or local abstractions instead of letting a file sprawl past 1000 lines.
    • If the diff crosses that threshold, explicitly ask whether the code should be decomposed first.
    • Only waive this if there is a compelling structural reason and the resulting file is still clearly organized.

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 192 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 3fe9fb20c10a

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thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository asteasolutions/ai-toolkit (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,477 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.