review-pr-judgment

review-pr-judgment is a skill for Claude Code from doodledood/manifest-dev. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A whole-pull-request review that checks whether a proposed change is justified by the problem it claims to solve. A pull request is a request to merge code into a shared branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a broad, non-blocking review of a pull request's purpose, approach, scope, and missing requirements.
Why use it?
It catches changes that may be too large, unnecessary, or missing something essential even when individual lines look correct.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the manifest-dev-tools plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for a broad, non-blocking review of a pull request's purpose, approach, scope, and missing requirements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/review-pr-judgment
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 doodledood/manifest-dev --skill review-pr-judgment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doodledood/manifest-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install manifest-dev-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,718 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 $0.00063 $0.01718
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00687
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00172

Measured 20d ago against content hash 928db3428e54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-pr-judgment 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 20d 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-plugins/manifest-dev-tools/skills/review-pr-judgment/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

review-pr-judgment

The reviewer-fleet dimensions find defects inside a change whose intent is taken as given — they judge implementation against explicit requirements and weigh the author's rationale as evidence. The judgment pass adds the one thing they structurally cannot: it asks whether the change earns its keep — whether it should exist, in this shape, at this footprint, given the pain it claims to solve.

The single question: Does this change — its existence, its approach, and its footprint — earn its keep against the pain it solves, and is anything the pain requires missing?

It runs as a wide-context pass. Receives: the PR description, the PR conversation, the codebase direction, the full PR-head diff (base..head, the whole PR), and, in manifest mode, the manifest's Intent as the stated pain — context the narrow-lens defect reviewers never see. It is non-blocking: every finding is a question the author answers, never a gate. The caller decides where this runs and gates fresh generation to once per PR; this skill only judges and returns.

Altitude — whole-PR only

The judgment pass operates on the PR as a whole, or a major component of it — the big question, never line-level ones. It must never fire on a small-item nitpick — an unused parameter, a single narrow helper, one incidental line; those belong to the defect dimensions or are dropped. The surface, omission, and precedent triggers fire only on a material footprint: a subsystem, a new public API area, a cluster of knobs, an established pattern — never a single incidental item.

Whole-PR altitude is unconditional: whenever the pass runs, it reads the entire PR head, not just the incrementally-reviewed range on a loop or re-review pass, so its question always concerns the whole change. Judgment findings are therefore exempt from any reviewed-range bounding that scopes defect findings to the latest delta.

The evidence bar

The pass exists to remove noise (unjustified changes, orphaned surface). It becomes noise the instant it fires on taste. So every trigger fires only on concrete, nameable evidence — something you can point at. "I'd have done it differently" is not evidence and stays dropped, just as implementation review requires evidence rather than a competing preference. When in doubt, stay silent: a missed premise question costs less than an arrogant one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 20d ago Changed 928db3428e54
  2. 1mo ago Changed f95ba3707b6d
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 83 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 3b55f1dcca17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-pr-judgment is a skill published in the GitHub repository doodledood/manifest-dev (75 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,718 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-05.

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