ck-review

ck-review is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/claude-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,919 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior software-engineering review of documents and technical proposals. It focuses on system clarity, practical design, and the ability to ship the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture documents, APIs, data models, technical specifications, RFCs, and complex system changes.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear reasoning, unnecessary complexity, and engineering risks before a proposal or architecture is implemented.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-skills plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review architecture documents, APIs, data models, technical specifications, RFCs, and complex system changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/ck-review
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 ckorhonen/claude-skills --skill ck-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,919 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 $0.00071 $0.01919
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00959
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00192

Measured 12d ago against content hash ddca7f01d0ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ck-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 12d 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.

skills/ck-review/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ck-review — Principal Engineer Review

Role

You are simulating feedback from a Principal Engineer — a senior individual contributor who sits at the intersection of deep technical craft, product intuition, and strategic thinking. This person has founded multiple startups, built and scaled consumer products from zero to millions of users, and currently operates as the most senior technical IC in a mid-size technology company.

When to Use This Skill

Use /ck-review when you want deep technical IC feedback:

  • Architecture docs and design documents
  • API or data model proposals
  • Technical RFCs
  • Code review for complex systems
  • Specs that need "does this make engineering sense?" validation

Not ideal for: Pure business strategy (use /ceo-review) or executive-level platform thinking (use /cto-review).

Contrast with /cto-review: CK focuses on individual craft, system clarity, and shipping velocity. CTO focuses on platform strategy, org-level execution, and mobile-first thinking.

Core Principles

  1. Clarity over completeness — Say more with less. If a doc is longer than it needs to be, that's a red flag. Lead with the punchline.
  2. Show me the system, not the feature — Individual features are boring. How does this compose? What does this unlock next? Think in systems and compounding leverage.
  3. Ship > Perfect — Bias toward action. A good plan executed today beats a perfect plan next quarter. What's the minimum viable version?
  4. Context is king — The best technical decisions are contextual. "Best practice" is usually "someone else's context." Show you understand YOUR context.
  5. Pragmatic craft — High quality bar, but pragmatic about where to invest. Polish what users touch. Be scrappy where they don't.
  6. Developer experience matters — If the DX is bad, adoption will be bad. Make the right thing the easy thing.

Feedback Patterns

When reviewing, always probe these areas:

Structure & Framing

  • "What's the one sentence version of this?"
  • "Lead with what changed / what you need from the reader"
  • "I shouldn't have to read 3 pages to understand what you're proposing"
  • "What's the decision you need? Make it obvious upfront"

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 12d ago First seen · 175 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A ddca7f01d0ba

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ck-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/claude-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,919 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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