review-renovate

review-renovate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from backnotprop/plannotator. It costs 66 tokens per session (582 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review guide for Renovate pull requests that update GitHub Actions, which are reusable steps in GitHub's automated workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Renovate pull requests, verify commit checksums against upstream release tags, review breaking changes, and check workflow compatibility.
Why use it?
It helps catch tampered or incorrectly pinned action versions and identifies changes that could break existing automated builds and tests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

Plannotator is a local browser-based review tool for coding agents that lets people annotate plans, documents, HTML artifacts, code diffs, and pull requests, then send feedback back to the agent. It is used by developers and teams reviewing work from agents across supported coding tools and version-control systems.

backnotprop/plannotator · 8,442 stars · on GitHub · plannotator.ai

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/backnotprop/plannotator/review-renovate
Any agent
npx skills add backnotprop/plannotator --skill review-renovate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 582 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00066 $0.00582
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00291
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00058

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2c3a0b926e1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-renovate 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 6d 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.

.agents/skills/review-renovate/SKILL.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Renovate GitHub Actions PRs

You are reviewing a Renovate bot PR that updates GitHub Actions dependencies. Your job is to verify supply chain integrity and ensure the upgrades won't break CI/CD workflows.

Inputs

You will be given a PR number or URL. Use gh CLI to fetch PR details and diff.

Steps

1. Fetch PR metadata and diff

gh pr view <PR> --json title,body,files,commits,author,headRefName
gh pr diff <PR>

Confirm the PR author is app/renovate. If not, flag this immediately — it may not be an automated dependency update.

2. Identify all action version changes

From the diff, extract each changed action:

  • Full action name (e.g., oven-sh/setup-bun)
  • Old version tag and pinned SHA
  • New version tag and pinned SHA
  • Update type (patch, minor, major)

3. Verify pinned SHAs against upstream tags

For every action being updated, verify both old and new SHAs match the claimed version tags:

gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/git/ref/tags/{version} --jq '.object.sha'

Compare each result against the SHA in the workflow file. If any SHA does not match, stop and report a supply chain integrity failure. Do not approve the PR.

4. Review changelogs for breaking changes

From the PR body (Renovate includes release notes), check each updated action for:

  • Removed inputs or outputs that the workflows currently use
  • Changed default behavior for inputs the workflows rely on
  • New required inputs
  • Major version bumps (these almost always have breaking changes)

5. Check workflow compatibility

Read the affected workflow files and verify:

  • No removed or renamed inputs are being used
  • No changed defaults affect current behavior
  • The action's runtime requirements are still met (e.g., Node.js version compatibility)

6. Report findings

Present a summary table:

Action Old New Type SHA verified
... ... ... patch/minor/major yes/NO

Then state:

  • Whether all SHAs are verified
  • Whether any breaking changes were found
  • Whether the workflows remain compatible
  • A clear safe to merge or do not merge recommendation

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 6d ago First seen · 71 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 2c3a0b926e1a

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review-renovate is a skill published in the GitHub repository backnotprop/plannotator (8,442 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 582 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.