receiving-code-review

A method for handling code-review feedback before making changes. It requires checking each comment against the codebase and responding with technical reasoning when a suggestion does not fit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Evaluating feedback from people or coding agents, checking multiple review items, and deciding which suggestions to implement or challenge.
Why use it?
Review comments can be incomplete, mistaken, or based on assumptions about the code. Verification prevents unnecessary edits and helps resolve disagreements with evidence.

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/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/receiving-code-review
Any agent
npx skills add drvoss/everything-copilot-cli --skill receiving-code-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,751 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 $0.00048 $0.01751
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00875
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00175

Measured 2d ago against content hash d97213d71029, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

receiving-code-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 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.

skills/development/receiving-code-review/SKILL.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Receiving Code Review

Receiving code review requires technical evaluation, not emotional performance. This skill governs what happens between getting feedback and typing the first edit — not how to produce a review.

Core principle: Verify before implementing. Ask before assuming. Technical correctness over social comfort.

When to Use

  • You just received review comments (from a human, code-review, review, or pr-multi-perspective-review) and are about to act on them
  • Feedback includes multiple items and some are unclear or only partially understood
  • A suggestion seems plausible but you have not yet checked it against this codebase
  • You pushed back earlier and now have evidence the reviewer was actually right

When NOT to Use

Instead of receiving-code-review Use
You are producing the review, not receiving it code-review, review, or pr-multi-perspective-review
You are checking a delegated implementation against a task spec after it landed implementation-review
Feedback is already fully verified and unambiguous Just implement it — this skill governs the reception gap, not every edit

The Response Pattern

1. READ: read the complete feedback without reacting or starting to type a fix
2. UNDERSTAND: restate each requirement in your own words, or ask
3. VERIFY: check the claim against the actual codebase (grep, view, run tests)
4. EVALUATE: is this technically sound for THIS codebase, not codebases in general?
5. RESPOND: technical acknowledgment or reasoned pushback — never gratitude theater
6. IMPLEMENT: one item at a time, testing each before moving to the next

Forbidden Responses

Never open with:

  • "You're absolutely right!"
  • "Great point!" / "Excellent feedback!"
  • Any gratitude expression ("Thanks for catching that")
  • "Let me implement that now" — before verification has actually happened

Instead:

  • Restate the technical requirement
  • Ask a specific clarifying question
  • Push back with technical reasoning if the suggestion is wrong for this codebase
  • Just do the work — the diff is the acknowledgment

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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 · 188 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d97213d71029

Subscribe to this mod's changes

receiving-code-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,751 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 2026-08-30.

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