review-branch

review-branch is a skill for Claude Code from cboone/agent-harness-plugins. It costs 34 tokens per session (4,207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A branch-review tool that compares your current Git branch with a chosen starting point and examines the changes. It can check a plan, give a brief summary, and save the review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review branch progress, compare work with a plan, create a short or detailed review, and save the result in the project.
Why use it?
It makes it easier to understand what has changed and whether the work matches the intended plan, without manually reading every commit and file difference.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the review-branch plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to review branch progress, compare work with a plan, create a short or detailed review, and save the result in the project.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/review-branch
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 cboone/agent-harness-plugins --skill review-branch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cboone/agent-harness-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install review-branch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

agentmods badge for review-branch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/review-branch/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/review-branch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/review-branch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/review-branch/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for review-branch

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/review-branch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cboone/agent-harness-plugins/review-branch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,207 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 $0.00034 $0.04207
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.01683
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00841
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00421

Measured yesterday against content hash d5ddd714152a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-branch 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 yesterday.

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/review-branch/skills/review-branch/SKILL.md · 380 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 380 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Branch

Review and evaluate all work done on the current branch: summarize changes, assess plan compliance, and evaluate code quality on its own merits.

Options

The user may provide these options inline:

  • --plan <path>: Path to a plan document to compare progress against
  • --since <ref>: Use a specific tag, branch, or commit as the base reference instead of the default branch
  • --brief: Output only a high-level summary without the detailed breakdown
  • --no-save: Skip saving the review to docs/reviews/ (default: save after outputting)

Capabilities and authority

Use the tools this session actually offers. For a question, use a structured question tool when available in the active mode; otherwise present numbered choices and wait. In a noninteractive run, report the unresolved question and preserved state instead of choosing an answer. Tool names such as Write, Read, Glob and AskUserQuestion below are examples: perform the same file or question operation with the host's supported mechanism. Write a body file completely before issuing the command that reads it; never batch those dependent operations.

Prior user authorization carries through the workflow; add no confirmation merely because the harness differs. Host approvals, active Plan or read-only mode, writable roots and network policy still apply. Stop before a prohibited write or any step dependent on a blocked operation, preserve state, and report the exact command and restriction. Never bypass controls or claim an unrun step completed. Separate completed, skipped, blocked and failed work in the result. For invocation hints, render the named skill with the running harness's form: slash invocation in Claude Code, dollar mention or the skills selector in Codex. A mention is not a tool call; load composed skills from their advertised locations.

Parent Continuation Contract

Honor a supplied parent continuation block and its resume target. On success, return control to the parent without asking whether to continue. When a decision has no supplied answer, do not ask independently or guess: return Status: needs-decision, the question, available choices and preserved state. The parent asks or stops, then invokes this skill with an answer. For an in-progress merge or rebase, list conflicts and the applicable abort command; do not abort or discard work merely to return a result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 380 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. yesterday Changed · +16 lines d5ddd714152a
  2. 28d ago Changed · +1 lines · -2 tokens per session 8ede0fba262f
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -5 lines · -69 tokens per session 79596d02d727
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines a5cd892142d5
  5. 2mo ago First seen · 366 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 0e4cc82ac31f

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review-branch is a skill published in the GitHub repository cboone/agent-harness-plugins (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 4,207 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.