twining-review

twining-review is a skill for Claude Code from daveangulo/twining-mcp. It costs 32 tokens per session (533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for checking whether important decisions from a coding session were recorded before a Git commit. Git is a system for tracking changes to code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before committing work to review recorded decisions, check their links to changes, and close missing documentation gaps.
Why use it?
It helps preserve the reasoning behind changes so later developers can understand and trace them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the twining plugin — 9 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before committing work to review recorded decisions, check their links to changes, and close missing documentation gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/daveangulo/twining-mcp/twining-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 daveangulo/twining-mcp --skill twining-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/daveangulo/twining-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install twining, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 2 commands, 2 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 533 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 $0.00032 $0.00533
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00053

Measured 7d ago against content hash cbebe3d84a18, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twining-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 7d 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.

plugin/skills/twining-review/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Twining Review — Pre-Commit Decision Review

Review the current session's work to ensure all significant architectural and implementation decisions have been properly recorded in Twining.

Requires the full tool surface. twining_what_changed, twining_trace, twining_search_decisions, twining_commits, twining_link_commit, and twining_decide exist only when the project sets tools.full_surface: true in .twining/config.yml. On a default install, run the equivalent review with twining_assemble (what the next agent will see for this scope) and twining_status (counts, warnings, open needs), then close any gap with twining_record — passing commit_hash for traceability.

Workflow

1. Review What Changed

Call twining_what_changed with since set to the session start time (or the last commit time). This shows:

  • New decisions made in this session
  • New blackboard entries (findings, warnings, needs)
  • Overridden or reconsidered decisions

2. Trace Decision Chains

For each decision made, call twining_trace with the decision ID to see:

  • Upstream dependencies (decisions this one depends on)
  • Downstream dependents (decisions that depend on this one)
  • Verify the chain is complete — no dangling references

3. Search for Related Decisions

Call twining_search_decisions to find potentially related decisions that should be linked:

  • Search by domain and scope to find nearby decisions
  • Check for conflicts or superseded decisions that weren't caught

4. Verify Commit Linkage

Call twining_commits with recent commit hashes to check which decisions are already linked. For any unlinked decisions, use twining_link_commit.

5. Check Decision Coverage

Look for gaps — significant choices made during the session that aren't recorded:

  • Algorithm selections
  • Library/framework choices
  • API design decisions
  • Data model changes
  • Security-relevant choices
  • Performance tradeoffs

For each gap, use twining_decide to record the missing decision.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 7d ago First seen · 58 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A cbebe3d84a18

Subscribe to this mod's changes

twining-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository daveangulo/twining-mcp (7 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 533 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 2026-08-31.