review-agent

review-agent is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 86 tokens per session (1,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that runs one specifically named code-review check against selected files. The named review agent determines what kind of problems it looks for.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for targeted checks such as security, JavaScript functional style, or test-related issues when those review agents are available.
Why use it?
It avoids running an entire review panel when you only need one focused check. This is useful when speed or a single concern matters.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for targeted checks such as security, JavaScript functional style, or test-related issues when those review agents are available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/review-agent
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 bdfinst/agentic-dev-team --skill review-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,737 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 61
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00086 $0.01737
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00695
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00347
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00174

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fe1fb99e56d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-agent 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.

plugins/dev-team/skills/review-agent/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Agent

Role: worker. This skill performs the actual review using the agent definition as its specification.

You have been invoked with the /review-agent skill. Run a single named review agent.

This command is executed under orchestrator direction. Pass the named agent's model:/effort: frontmatter as declared — the harness resolves both fields natively before dispatch, per Model/Effort Resolution in .claude/agents/orchestrator.md (ADR 0026).

Worker constraints

  1. Follow the agent definition exactly. The agent file is your specification — detect what it says to detect, skip what it says to skip.
  2. Respect context needs. When reviewing uncommitted changes or --since, honor the agent's Context needs field (diff-only, full-file, or project-structure).
  3. Do not add findings beyond the agent's scope. If the agent says "Ignore: naming, tests" — do not flag naming or test issues.
  4. The structured JSON result (step 3) is the canonical output. In --json mode it is the only thing written to stdout — no formatted summary, no report, no prose (see step 3c). Otherwise it is also rendered as a formatted summary (step 4) and written to the durable report (step 4b).
  5. Be concise. Issue messages should be one sentence. Suggested fixes should be actionable, not explanatory. No preambles or filler.

Parse Arguments

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Required: agent name ($0, e.g., test-review, js-fp-review, security-review)

Optional:

  • --since <ref>: Review files changed since a git ref
  • --path <dir>: Target directory (default: current working directory)
  • --internal: This is an orchestrator-internal dispatch (e.g. /build's Phase 3 inline checkpoints) — skip the .dev-team-reports/ report write in step 4b. /build is the only sanctioned caller of this flag today.
  • --json: Machine-readable mode. Emit only the step-3 JSON result to stdout and nothing else — skip the formatted summary (step 4), skip the .dev-team-reports/ report write (step 4b), and print no confirmation line, preamble, or trailing prose. Used by subprocess callers such as /agent-eval --calibrate that parse stdout and need a deterministic, model-independent result. See step 3c.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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 · 153 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A fe1fb99e56d4

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review-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 1,737 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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