review-handshake

review-handshake is a skill for Claude Code from fprochazka/claude-code-plugins. It costs 119 tokens per session (1,478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for coordinating the author and reviewer sides of a merge request, which is a proposed code change awaiting review. It uses the ticket state and draft status to show whose turn it is.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for handing merge requests to reviewers, sending them back for changes, and keeping author and reviewer actions separate.
Why use it?
It prevents both sides from making conflicting changes and makes the handoff between coding and review explicit. It also defines how findings and review comments are handled.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the teamwork plugin — 2 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for handing merge requests to reviewers, sending them back for changes, and keeping author and reviewer actions separate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins/review-handshake
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 fprochazka/claude-code-plugins --skill review-handshake
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fprochazka/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install teamwork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,478 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 $0.00119 $0.01478
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.00591
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00148

Measured 25d ago against content hash 4076cfa11911, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-handshake 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 25d 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/teamwork/skills/review-handshake/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

review-handshake

Two agents share one merge request: the author side, /sdlc:mr-babysit, which changes code, and the reviewer side, /code-review:watch, which never does. They never talk to each other directly. They agree on the state of the MR through the conventions below, and every one of them is read at run time from the MR and the ticket, never from memory.

Whose court the ball is in

The ticket carries the ball. The MR's draft flag says only whether the work was ever handed over.

  1. The author works. The MR is draft, the ticket is in WORK_STATE.
  2. The author hands over: the MR is marked ready and the ticket moves to REVIEW_STATE. Neither side sets the draft flag again, but GitLab may: a push whose commit title starts with fixup! or WIP re-drafts the MR on its own. So marking ready is part of every move to REVIEW_STATE, not only the first, and it is a no-op when the MR is already ready.
  3. The reviewer reviews. Either it comments that all is good and leaves the ticket in REVIEW_STATE, since approving and merging is a human's decision, or it posts its findings and moves the ticket back to WORK_STATE. It does not touch the draft flag.
  4. The author addresses the feedback, marks the MR ready again in case a push re-drafted it, and moves the ticket back to REVIEW_STATE. The author side also moves the ticket to WORK_STATE itself when it takes work back after a handover, a red pipeline for example, with a comment saying why.

So ready for review is the ticket in REVIEW_STATE and the MR not draft; back to work is the ticket in WORK_STATE. The one broken state is a draft MR under a ticket in REVIEW_STATE: work that was never handed over, marked as if it were. A command that finds it does not repair it for the other side and does not comment on the mismatch; it waits.

The state names come from the teamwork:workflow-identify skill, resolved once per run and never hardcoded. With tracker: none nothing but the draft flag is left to carry the ball, so it carries it both ways: draft is back to work, ready is ready for review, and the reviewer re-drafts to hand back.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 25d ago First seen · 58 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A 4076cfa11911

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review-handshake is a skill published in the GitHub repository fprochazka/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 1,478 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-22.

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