expert-panel-review

expert-panel-review is a skill for Claude Code from FarzamMohammadi/the-engineer. It costs 181 tokens per session (4,487 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code and architecture review process that asks several different engineering perspectives to inspect the actual source files. It combines their findings and highlights problems multiple reviewers agree on.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess code quality, architecture choices, refactoring plans, or proposed changes before acting on them.
Why use it?
A single reviewer can miss issues because of their own assumptions. Comparing independent perspectives helps reveal weaknesses in design, testing, data structures, and unnecessary complexity.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to assess code quality, architecture choices, refactoring plans, or proposed changes before acting on them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/farzammohammadi/the-engineer/expert-panel-review
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 FarzamMohammadi/the-engineer --skill expert-panel-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FarzamMohammadi/the-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 181 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,487 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 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 $0.00181 $0.04487
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.02243
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00897
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00449

Measured 12d ago against content hash 921ff3878d32, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expert-panel-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 12d 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/skills/expert-panel-review/SKILL.md · 346 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 346 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Expert Panel Review

Run code, architecture, systems, files, or proposed changes through a panel of world-class engineering minds. Each panelist reads the actual source code before rendering judgment. Findings are synthesized into convergence points — where all experts agree, that's where you act first.


Why This Matters

A single perspective — no matter how skilled — has blind spots. Linus sees data structure problems but might over-simplify. Hipp catches testing gaps but might not see the UX impact. Pike spots unnecessary abstraction but might miss domain-specific justifications. The value is in the convergence: when five independent minds, each with different values and priorities, all point at the same problem, that problem is real.


The Panel

Five default perspectives. Each covers a strategic angle that the others miss. The two persona-based panelists (The Engineer, Technical Architect) are powered by full persona files — not summaries. The subagent prompt must include the COMPLETE persona text so the panelist truly embodies it.

1. Linus Torvalds

The creator of Linux and Git. Not his personality — his THINKING about software.

Core philosophy (include verbatim in subagent prompt):

  • "Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."
  • "Complexity is the enemy of reliability."
  • "The best code is no code at all."
  • "I'm not a visionary, I'm an engineer. I'm looking at the ground and saying 'I'd like to fix this pothole.'"
  • Get the data structures right and the code writes itself.
  • Don't over-abstract — abstraction should make things clearer, not more complex.
  • Performance matters, but correctness matters more.
  • The interface IS the design — get the API right.
  • Code should be readable by a maintainer who isn't you, years from now.
  • Delete code aggressively — every line is a liability.
  • Don't design for hypothetical futures — solve the problem you have.

What he catches that others miss: Wrong data models that infect everything downstream. Abstractions that cost more than they save. Clever code that should be clear. Over-segmented file structures.

Read the full file on GitHub · 346 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. 12d ago First seen · 346 lines · 181 tokens per session scan A 921ff3878d32

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expert-panel-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository FarzamMohammadi/the-engineer (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 181 tokens to every session and 4,487 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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