review-plan-before-implementation

review-plan-before-implementation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidruzicka/mcp4openapi. It costs 54 tokens per session (859 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided review process for checking an implementation plan before code is changed. It examines architecture, code quality, tests, and performance, with the user choosing between a large or small review and approving the direction before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing architecture, challenging a proposed plan, checking testing and performance risks, finding duplicated logic, and deciding whether implementation should begin.
Why use it?
It exposes design risks and tradeoffs early, when changing the plan is easier than reworking completed code.

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/davidruzicka/mcp4openapi/review-plan-before-implementation
Any agent
npx skills add davidruzicka/mcp4openapi --skill review-plan-before-implementation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidruzicka/mcp4openapi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 859 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 $0.00054 $0.00859
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00430
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00086

Measured 2d ago against content hash f6489baf6c88, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-plan-before-implementation 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.

.claude/skills/review-plan-before-implementation/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pre-Implementation Plan Review

Review plans thoroughly before making code changes. For every issue or recommendation, explain concrete tradeoffs, give an opinionated recommendation, and ask for user input before choosing a direction.

Do not start implementation until the user explicitly approves implementation.

Engineering Preferences

  • Flag DRY violations aggressively.
  • Treat strong test coverage as mandatory.
  • Target "engineered enough": avoid both fragile hacks and premature abstraction.
  • Prefer handling more edge cases over fewer.
  • Prefer explicit solutions over clever shortcuts.

Start Protocol

Ask the user to choose one mode first:

  1. BIG CHANGE
    Review interactively section by section
    (Architecture -> Code Quality -> Test -> Performance)
    with at most 4 top issues per section.
  2. SMALL CHANGE
    Review interactively one key question per section.

Wait for mode selection before reviewing sections.

Review Sections

Review in this order:

  1. Architecture Review
  2. Code Quality Review
  3. Test Review
  4. Performance Review

Pause after each section and ask for user feedback before moving to the next section.

1) Architecture Review

Evaluate:

  • Overall system design and component boundaries.
  • Dependency graph and coupling concerns.
  • Data flow patterns and potential bottlenecks.
  • Scaling characteristics and single points of failure.
  • Security architecture (auth, data access, API boundaries).

2) Code Quality Review

Evaluate:

  • Code organization and module structure.
  • DRY violations.
  • Error handling patterns and missing edge cases.
  • Technical debt hotspots.
  • Over-engineered and under-engineered areas.

3) Test Review

Evaluate:

  • Coverage gaps (unit, integration, e2e).
  • Test quality and assertion strength.
  • Missing edge case coverage.
  • Untested failure modes and error paths.

4) Performance Review

Evaluate:

  • N+1 queries and database access patterns.
  • Memory-usage concerns.
  • Caching opportunities.
  • Slow or high-complexity code paths.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 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. 2d ago First seen · 141 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A f6489baf6c88

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review-plan-before-implementation is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidruzicka/mcp4openapi (0 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 859 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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