review-verification-protocol

review-verification-protocol is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from existential-birds/beagle. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,592 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A required checklist for checking code-review findings before reporting them. It makes the reviewer reread the exact code or change being judged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it whenever an agent reviews code or verifies a reported issue. It covers confirming the relevant file, line, code, or diff before giving a verdict.
Why use it?
It helps prevent false alarms caused by memory, assumptions, or reviewing the wrong code. This saves developers from investigating findings that are not real.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the beagle-core plugin — 19 skills shipped together

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/existential-birds/beagle/review-verification-protocol
Any agent
npx skills add existential-birds/beagle --skill review-verification-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/existential-birds/beagle

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install beagle-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,592 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 $0.00028 $0.02592
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01296
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00259

Measured 5d ago against content hash 540d01914de3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-verification-protocol 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 5d 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.

plugins/beagle-core/skills/review-verification-protocol/SKILL.md · 244 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 244 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Verification Protocol

This protocol MUST be followed before reporting any code review finding. Skipping these steps leads to false positives that waste developer time and erode trust in reviews.

Anti-confabulation (gate 0 — applies to ALL review/verify skills)

Before issuing any verdict — confirm, reject, sever, fix, or adjudicate — you MUST echo the exact artifact you are judging, quoted from a source you read in this turn:

  • For a code finding: the file:line plus the cited code, read freshly now (not recalled from earlier in the session).
  • For a diff review: the actual diff hunk under review.
  • For a structured report (e.g. verify-llm-artifacts adjudicating findings[]): the finding's id + file + line + description, printed from the parsed source file, not from memory.

The artifact is the only source of truth. Never infer what you are reviewing from the branch name, the working directory, surrounding files, or recollection. If your mental model differs from the freshly read source, the source wins. A verdict issued without a same-turn echo of its target is invalid — emit the echo first, or do not emit the verdict.

This gate exists because an LLM under contextual priming will confidently adjudicate things that are not in the file. It runs before the per-finding hard gates below. Skills that consume this protocol implement it concretely: verify-llm-artifacts (Load + ECHO + ID-lock gate), review-llm-artifacts (echo finding before writing JSON), llm-artifacts-detection (anchor FILE:LINE from an opened buffer).

Hard gates (sequence)

Apply once per finding before it may appear in the review. If a gate fails, omit the finding, downgrade to Informational (per Severity Calibration), or rephrase as a question—do not ship soft accusations.

Step What you do Pass condition (objective)
1. Anchor Read the full enclosing symbol or module, not only the diff hunk. You can state file path and line range (or symbol name + file) you are judging.
2. Evidence For this finding’s type, run the checks in Verification by Issue Type. Each required check has an artifact: pasted tool output, file:line citation, or explicit "none" / "N matches" after a repo search—not a claim you "looked."
3. Severity Assign severity using Severity Calibration. Label matches the table; requests for net-new code that did not exist in scope are Informational only.
4. Format Draft the finding for the report. Matches [FILE:LINE] ISSUE_TITLE; Informational items do not add to the actionable count.

Read the full file on GitHub · 244 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. 5d ago First seen · 244 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 540d01914de3

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review-verification-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository existential-birds/beagle (80 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,592 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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