pr-review-rubric

pr-review-rubric is a skill for Claude Code from atuljha23/holocron. It costs 36 tokens per session (705 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checklist for reviewing a pull request, the proposed set of code changes submitted for approval before merging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing correctness, edge cases, errors, concurrency, public API and database changes, test coverage, naming, readability, and the likely impact on other code.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers catch incorrect behaviour, broken interfaces, unsafe changes, unclear code, and missing tests before the changes reach the main codebase.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the holocron plugin — 11 skills, 24 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Reviewing correctness, edge cases, errors, concurrency, public API and database changes, test coverage, naming, readability, and the likely impact on other code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atuljha23/holocron/pr-review-rubric
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 atuljha23/holocron --skill pr-review-rubric
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atuljha23/holocron

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install holocron, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 24 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks.

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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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 705 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 $0.00036 $0.00705
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00352
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00071

Measured 12d ago against content hash cf63a5a84b60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pr-review-rubric 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 12d 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/pr-review-rubric/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PR review rubric

What a staff-plus engineer looks at when reviewing.

1. Understand before commenting

  • Read the PR description. If there isn't one, that's the first problem.
  • Skim commits. A clean story of atomic commits tells you what the author was thinking.
  • Read the tests first — they describe the contract.
  • Now read the code.

If you can't state what this PR does in one sentence in your own words, you can't review it yet.

2. Correctness

  • Does the happy path do what the description claims?
  • What are the boundary inputs? (empty, huge, zero, negative, unicode, null, undefined, missing)
  • What about concurrency? Two callers at once. Retries. Cancellation.
  • Error paths — is every throw handled, and is the handler the right place?
  • Off-by-one, inclusive/exclusive range, integer overflow on counters.

3. Contract

  • Public API change? Add-only? Breaking?
  • Response shape change — who depends on the old shape?
  • Database schema change — is the migration safe under traffic?
  • Removed a function — who called it? git grep before approving the delete.

4. Clarity

  • Names convey intent. getUser returns a user. getUserOrDefault returns a user or a default. resolve explains nothing.
  • Control flow reads top-to-bottom with minimal branching surprise.
  • The obvious case isn't buried under the edge case.
  • Comments explain why, not what. If there's a non-obvious constraint, it's documented.

5. Tests

  • Do they assert behavior the user cares about, or implementation detail?
  • Would they catch the next regression of this code?
  • Are the failing messages useful, or "expected true got false"?
  • Are there tests for every new branch?
  • Do the tests actually run? (Yes, this gets missed.)

6. Blast radius

  • What else does this code touch or get touched by?
  • Are those callers tested, or are we relying on this PR's tests alone?
  • Is there a way to stage the rollout?

7. Security

  • Only flag real risks. "You could add validation here" is noise unless there's an exploitable surface.
  • If this touches authn/authz, data egress, or user-controlled strings → apply the security checklist.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 12d ago First seen · 82 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A cf63a5a84b60

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pr-review-rubric is a skill published in the GitHub repository atuljha23/holocron (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 705 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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