code-review

A checklist for reviewing proposed code changes before they are merged. It covers behavior, code quality, tests, security, speed, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review pull requests: compare the implementation with its description, inspect error handling and database queries, check tests, and confirm public code and documentation are updated.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of accepting changes that fail in edge cases, expose secrets, mishandle input, or leave existing tests broken.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/block/agent-skills/code-review
Any agent
npx skills add block/agent-skills --skill code-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/block/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 243 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 $0.00011 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00024

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0ea793c39def, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-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 2d 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.

code-review/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Code Review Checklist

When reviewing code, check each of these areas:

Functionality

  • Code does what the PR description claims
  • Edge cases are handled
  • Error handling is appropriate

Code Quality

  • Follows project style guide
  • No hardcoded values that should be configurable
  • Functions are focused and well-named

Testing

  • New functionality has tests
  • Tests are meaningful, not just for coverage
  • Existing tests still pass

Security

  • No credentials or secrets in code
  • User input is validated
  • SQL queries are parameterized

Performance

  • No obvious performance issues
  • Database queries are optimized
  • No unnecessary loops or iterations

Documentation

  • Public APIs are documented
  • Complex logic has comments explaining "why"
  • README updated if needed
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. 2d ago First seen · 51 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 0ea793c39def

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository block/agent-skills (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 243 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.