writing-review-packets

writing-review-packets is a skill for Codex from figitaki/reviews. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,498 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing Markdown review packets that organize a code change for human reviewers. A packet groups related parts of a diff, explains what to inspect, and points to exact code sections called hunks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft or update review packets, organize changes by logical area, add context around code hunks, validate packet references, and push revisions for a new patchset.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers understand the purpose and boundaries of a change without reading a line-by-line restatement of the diff. It also provides the format needed by the Reviews command-line tool.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to draft or update review packets, organize changes by logical area, add context around code hunks, validate packet references, and push revisions for a new patchset.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/figitaki/reviews/writing-review-packets
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add figitaki/reviews --skill writing-review-packets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/figitaki/reviews

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,498 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00082 $0.01498
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00150

Measured 12d ago against content hash 204a484bd393, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-review-packets 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.

skills/writing-review-packets/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Review Packets

Use this skill when drafting packet markdown for reviews push --packet. A good packet is a reviewer map: it groups related hunks, explains why to look, and avoids rephrasing the diff line-by-line.

Packet Markdown Format

Use one top-level title and ## packet sections:

# Packet Title

Short overview of what the review packet covers.

## Section Title

One or two sentences orienting the reviewer.

One sentence of context before the hunk when useful.

@hunk path/to/file.ex#1

Rules:

  • Start with exactly one # title.
  • Use ## for review packet sections.
  • Prose between hunk refs is allowed and encouraged.
  • Hunk refs use @hunk path#N.
  • Paths and hunk numbers must match the diff being pushed.

Writing Method

  1. Inspect the diff with git diff or the intended CLI range.
  2. Identify logical review areas: persistence/schema, read model, LiveView state, rendering, styling, tests, tooling.
  3. Prefer stable section titles if updating an existing packet and you want approvals to inherit.
  4. Put a 1-2 sentence summary at the top of each ## section.
  5. Use ### subheadings sparingly, only when a section truly needs scan landmarks; do not add a stock technical-overview subsection to every section.
  6. Add terse hunk explainers before hunks when they help the reader know what to look for.
  7. Avoid hunk explainers that restate the diff; explain context, dependency order, risk, or review intent.
  8. Keep section decisions independent from hunk viewed progress in wording.

Structure Preferences

Treat each ## section as an approval unit. A reviewer should be able to approve the section without implicitly approving unrelated risks.

Shape sections around independent review decisions, not just file adjacency. Split a section when it mixes substantial concerns such as:

  • persistence/schema changes and runtime behavior,
  • backend API contracts and CLI/client wiring,
  • UI behavior/templates and design-system or CSS primitives,
  • implementation hunks and broad regression coverage,
  • feature work and packet/tooling/documentation changes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 12d ago First seen · 143 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 204a484bd393

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writing-review-packets is a skill published in the GitHub repository figitaki/reviews (6 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,498 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.