dry-code-review

dry-code-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from espennilsen/pi. It costs 129 tokens per session (1,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for coding tasks that creates a detailed plan before any code is changed. It is intended for larger, ambiguous, architectural, infrastructure, or migration work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break work into steps, describe the intended architecture, assess risks, record open questions, and wait for approval before editing code.
Why use it?
Planning first exposes assumptions, risks, dependencies, and approval points before implementation begins. This reduces the chance of solving the wrong problem or making an unsafe broad change.

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/espennilsen/pi/dry-code-review
Any agent
npx skills add espennilsen/pi --skill dry-code-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/espennilsen/pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for dry-code-review

README.md
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,605 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 $0.00129 $0.01605
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00803
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00161

Measured 4d ago against content hash a8131d4aec54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dry-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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/find_duplicates.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/dry-code-review/dry-code-review/SKILL.md · 185 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DRY Code Review Skill

Perform a structured, thorough code review focused on the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle. The review is planned and tracked via a markdown file in plans/.

Overview

The DRY principle states: "Every piece of knowledge must have a single, unambiguous, authoritative representation within a system." This skill systematically finds violations and recommends fixes.

Workflow

Phase 1: Setup & Discovery

  1. Create the tracking plan in plans/dry-review-<project-name>.md using the template below
  2. Inventory the codebase: List all source files, their languages, sizes, and roles
  3. Identify scope: Confirm with the user which directories/files to include or exclude (e.g., skip node_modules, vendor, generated files, test fixtures)

Phase 2: Automated Scanning

Run the scanning script to find likely duplication:

bash /path/to/dry-code-review/scripts/find_duplicates.sh <target_directory> [extensions]

The script detects:

  • Identical or near-identical code blocks (3+ lines repeated)
  • Repeated string literals and magic numbers
  • Similar function signatures across files
  • Repeated boilerplate and configuration patterns

Import/dependency lines are intentionally excluded from the duplicate-lines scan so they don't dominate the output.

Phase 3: Manual Analysis

After automated scanning, perform deeper analysis by reading the codebase. Look for these DRY violation categories:

Category 1: Literal Duplication
  • Copy-pasted code blocks (exact or near-exact)
  • Repeated string literals / magic numbers
  • Duplicate configuration values
Category 2: Structural Duplication
  • Functions/methods that do the same thing with minor variations
  • Repeated conditional logic (same if/else chains)
  • Similar class structures that could share a base class or mixin
  • Repeated error handling patterns
Category 3: Logical Duplication
  • Same business logic expressed differently in multiple places
  • Repeated validation rules
  • Duplicate data transformation pipelines
  • Same algorithm implemented in multiple places

Read the full file on GitHub · 185 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 185 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A a8131d4aec54

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dry-code-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository espennilsen/pi (117 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 1,605 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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