review-methodology

review-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from dean0x/devflow. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A six-step method for reviewing code changes and reporting clear, actionable issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a diff, classify issues by ownership and priority, and decide which findings should block a merge.
Why use it?
It keeps reviews focused on the submitted changes and avoids blocking work because of older problems elsewhere in the codebase.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to inspect a diff, classify issues by ownership and priority, and decide which findings should block a merge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dean0x/devflow/review-methodology
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 dean0x/devflow --skill review-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dean0x/devflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,009 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 $0.00021 $0.01009
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00404
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00101

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6090ededcbdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-methodology 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.

src/assets/skills/review-methodology/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Methodology

The canonical review process for all Devflow review agents. Ensures consistent, fair, and actionable code reviews.

Iron Law

NEVER BLOCK FOR PRE-EXISTING ISSUES

Only issues in YOUR CHANGES can block a PR. Pre-existing issues are informational only. If you didn't add it, you don't own it. Fair reviews focus on the diff, not the codebase.

Core Philosophy

  1. Focus on changed lines first - Developer introduced these
  2. Context matters - Issues near changes should be fixed together
  3. Be fair - Don't block PRs for legacy code
  4. Be specific - Exact file:line with examples
  5. Be actionable - Clear fixes, not vague complaints

6-Step Review Process

Step 1: Identify Changed Lines

Get the diff to understand what changed. Identify base branch and extract changed files/lines.

Step 2: Categorize Issues

Category Scope Priority Action
1. Issues in Your Changes Lines ADDED/MODIFIED in this branch BLOCKING Must fix before merge
2. Issues in Code You Touched Same file/function, but not your line HIGH Should fix while here
3. Pre-existing Issues Lines you didn't touch at all INFORMATIONAL Fix in separate PR

Note: All categories and severities — including suggestions — are reported for resolution. Categories affect PR merge-blocking, not whether issues get resolved. The resolve workflow evaluates everything.

Step 3: Analyze with Domain Expertise

Apply your specialized lens (security, performance, tests, etc.) to each category:

  • Category 1 - Maximum scrutiny, any issue blocks PR
  • Category 2 - Should fix together with your changes
  • Category 3 - Note but don't block, suggest separate issues

Step 4: Prioritize by Severity

Severity Description Examples
CRITICAL Immediate risk, must fix Security vulnerabilities, data loss risks, breaking API changes
HIGH Significant risk, should fix Performance degradation, missing error handling
MEDIUM Moderate risk, consider fixing Style inconsistencies, missing documentation
LOW Minor improvements Naming suggestions, optional optimizations

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 7d ago Changed · -3 tokens per session 6090ededcbdc
  2. 1mo ago Changed d7f8a55fcc71
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 122 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 8f5bb1ba2b27

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository dean0x/devflow (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,009 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 2026-08-30.

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