meta-review

meta-review is a skill for Claude Code from fivol/claude-make-better. It costs 284 tokens per session (2,791 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A retrospective review skill for Claude Code session logs, which are saved records of past coding conversations. It looks across a period of sessions for recurring mistakes, workflow problems, missing automation, and instruction issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review past Claude Code work, identify repeated friction or mistakes, find useful missing skills, and improve development workflows.
Why use it?
It helps reveal patterns that are easy to miss in one conversation, such as repeated errors or tasks that should be automated. It turns those observations into a short, prioritized set of actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the make-better plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review past Claude Code work, identify repeated friction or mistakes, find useful missing skills, and improve development workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fivol/claude-make-better/meta-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 fivol/claude-make-better --skill meta-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fivol/claude-make-better

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install make-better, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 284 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,791 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 $0.00284 $0.02791
Opus 5 $0.00142 $0.01396
Sonnet 5 $0.00057 $0.00558
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00279

Measured 11d ago against content hash bc2e9d51b32e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

meta-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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/meta_review.py), 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.

plugins/make-better/skills/meta-review/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

meta-review

Audit how the user and Claude Code have actually been working together — over a window of real session history — then turn that into a short, prioritized, actionable list and apply what the user picks. Each run is logged so the next run resumes from where this one stopped.

You are the orchestrator. The heavy, noisy reading of session logs happens inside subagents (one per lens) so this conversation's context stays clean and you keep only the findings. Do not read 60 session files yourself.

The data you're reviewing

Claude Code stores each session as a JSONL file under ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/<session-id>.jsonl (the cwd's absolute path with every non-alphanumeric char replaced by -). Records carry an ISO8601 timestamp and the cwd. Two ways to read this history:

  • meta-cc MCP tools (preferred) — purpose-built aggregation over a project's sessions, with since/until time filters and jq_filter. Load them with ToolSearch (query meta-cc) since they're deferred. They default to scope: "project" (current project, all its sessions). See references/meta-cc-queries.md for the call recipes per lens.
  • Raw JSONL (fallback) — if meta-cc is unavailable or broken (it's hand-patched on this machine and occasionally breaks), read the session files directly with grep/jq. The helper's plan output lists the exact files.

Inputs (optional args)

Parse anything the user passed after the skill name; otherwise use defaults.

Arg / phrase Effect
(nothing) Scope = current project. Window = since last review, else past 7 days.
all / "all projects" / "везде" Scope = every project under ~/.claude/projects.
<path> Scope = that project's cwd path.
<N>d / "last N days" / "за N дней" Force window = past N days (ignore last-review date).
since <DATE> / "с <дата>" Force window start.
--default-days <N> Change the first-run default (otherwise 7).

The log lives at .meta-review.jsonl in the cwd where the skill is invoked (the project root), regardless of scope.

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 221 lines · 284 tokens per session scan A bc2e9d51b32e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

meta-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository fivol/claude-make-better (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 284 tokens to every session and 2,791 once invoked, about $0.0014 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.

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