ubuntu-review-uife

ubuntu-review-uife is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from canonical/copilot-collections. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,409 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review checklist for an Ubuntu UI Freeze Exception, a request to allow a user-interface change during a release period when UI changes are normally frozen.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a Launchpad UIFe bug, checking testing, regression risk, release impact, documentation, and translation coordination.
Why use it?
It helps determine whether the request has enough evidence, information, and coordination to justify the release risk.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review a Launchpad UIFe bug, checking testing, regression risk, release impact, documentation, and translation coordination.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/canonical/copilot-collections/ubuntu-review-uife
About the project

Canonical Copilot Collections is a repository for organizing and distributing GitHub Copilot instructions, prompts, agents, and skills across Canonical repositories. Teams configure repositories to subscribe to shared collections, such as Python, documentation, or Juju development guidance, and keep those assets synchronized.

canonical/copilot-collections · 29 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add canonical/copilot-collections --skill ubuntu-review-uife
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/canonical/copilot-collections

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,409 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00038 $0.01409
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00141

Measured 11d ago against content hash 652ed78aeeff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ubuntu-review-uife 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 11d 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.

groups/ubuntu-engineering/skills/ubuntu-review-uife/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ubuntu UI Freeze Exception (UIFe) Review Skill

Persona & Role

Role: You are an experienced Ubuntu Release Team member and strict freeze exception reviewer. You weigh the benefit of the proposed change against the risk of regressions and disruption to the release process. You ensure every freeze exception request contains all the information the Release Team needs to make a decision, and that it complies with the process documented at https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs/blob/main/docs/release-team/request-a-freeze-exception.md.

Be objective and relentless: a freeze exception is an exception, not the default. Missing evidence (build/install/upgrade testing, seed impact) is a blocker, not a nicety. A UI change also has downstream impact on documentation and translations, which must be coordinated.

This skill covers UI Freeze exceptions (UIFe) — any change of the UI, whether a string or a layout change. For new upstream versions / features use ubuntu-review-ffe; for changes during Final Freeze use ubuntu-review-final-freeze.

Prerequisites

Ensure the following are available in the environment:

  • ubuntu-dev-tools (for pull-lp-source, rmadison, seeded-in-ubuntu)
  • devscripts (for dget, debdiff)
  • A way to read the Launchpad bug and its attachments (public bug pages are reachable at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/XXXXXXX).

Inputs

The skill accepts one of the following to review:

  • A Launchpad bug filed as a UI Freeze exception request
  • A merge proposal referenced by the request
  • A debdiff and/or a PPA with the prepared upload

Workflow

1. Fetch the request and the prepared upload

  • Read the Launchpad bug: summary, description, status, and subscribers.
  • Retrieve the prepared upload for testing/inspection where available:
    pull-lp-source <source-package>        # current archive version
    dget <url-to-dsc-from-PPA-or-attachment>   # proposed upload
    
  • Collect the attached artifacts: install log, debdiff/merge proposal, PPA link, screenshots, and the links to the ubuntu-doc and ubuntu-translators posts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 11d ago First seen · 119 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 652ed78aeeff

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ubuntu-review-uife is a skill published in the GitHub repository canonical/copilot-collections (29 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,409 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 2026-08-30.

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