review-changes-against-spec-and-standards

review-changes-against-spec-and-standards is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,608 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of code-review, Apache-2.0.

A code review that compares changes since a chosen Git point, such as a commit, branch, tag, or merge-base, with both the project's standards and the requested specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check a completed change against repository coding rules and its originating issue or specification, with the two checks performed independently.
Why use it?
A review can miss whether code follows local conventions or whether it actually fulfills the original request. Separate reviews cover those two questions side by side.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the claude-code-engineering plugin — 53 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to check a completed change against repository coding rules and…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering/review-changes-against-spec-and-standards
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 everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering --skill review-changes-against-spec-and-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-code-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,608 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.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00103 $0.01608
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00804
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00161

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5138eb307ded, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-changes-against-spec-and-standards 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to code-review — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/review-changes-against-spec-and-standards/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Two-axis review of the diff between HEAD and a fixed point the user supplies:

  • Standards: does the code conform to this repo's documented coding standards?
  • Spec: does the code faithfully implement-from-a-spec the originating issue / spec?

Both axes run as parallel sub-agents so they don't pollute each other's context, then this skill aggregates their findings.

The issue tracker should have been provided to you. If docs/agents/issue-tracker.md is missing, tell the user to run /set-up-the-issue-tracker.

Process

1. Pin the fixed point

Whatever the user said is the fixed point (a commit SHA, branch name, tag, main, HEAD~5, etc.). If they didn't specify one, ask for it.

Capture the diff command once: git diff <fixed-point>...HEAD (three-dot, so the comparison is against the merge-base). Also note the list of commits via git log <fixed-point>..HEAD --oneline.

Before going further, confirm the fixed point resolves (git rev-parse <fixed-point>) and the diff is non-empty. A bad ref or empty diff should fail here, not inside two parallel sub-agents.

2. Identify the spec source

Look for the originating spec, in this order:

  1. Issue references in the commit messages (#123, Closes #45, GitLab !67, etc.), fetched via the workflow in docs/agents/issue-tracker.md.
  2. A path the user passed as an argument.
  3. A spec file under docs/, specs/, or .scratch/ matching the branch name or feature.
  4. If nothing is found, ask the user where the spec is. If they say there isn't one, the Spec sub-agent will skip and report "no spec available".

3. Identify the standards sources

Anything in the repo that documents how code should be written, such as CODING_STANDARDS.md or CONTRIBUTING.md.

On top of whatever the repo documents, the Standards axis always carries the smell baseline below: a fixed set of Fowler code smells (Refactoring, ch.3) that applies even when a repo documents nothing. Two rules bind it:

  • The repo overrides. A documented repo standard always wins; where it endorses something the baseline would flag, suppress the smell.
  • Always a judgement call. Each smell is a labelled heuristic ("possible Feature Envy"), never a hard violation. Like any standard here, skip anything tooling already enforces.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 6d ago First seen · 92 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 5138eb307ded

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-changes-against-spec-and-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository everywan-dev/claude-code-engineering (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,608 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to code-review, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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