code-review-checklist

code-review-checklist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from groupzer0/vs-code-agents. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,229 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured checklist for reviewing project plans before coding and source code after implementation, covering correctness, security, performance, maintainability, and architectural fit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pre-implementation plan checks, post-implementation security and quality audits, architecture reviews, and user-acceptance validation.
Why use it?
It makes review criteria explicit and assigns severity levels to problems, so important issues are less likely to be missed or buried among minor comments. It also separates planning review from code review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for pre-implementation plan checks, post-implementation security and quality audits, architecture reviews, and user-acceptance validation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/groupzer0/vs-code-agents/code-review-checklist
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 groupzer0/vs-code-agents --skill code-review-checklist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/groupzer0/vs-code-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,229 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 $0.00042 $0.01229
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00492
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 16c8a5e929d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review-checklist 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check-complexity.sh, scripts/pre-review-check.sh, scripts/run-linters.sh), 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.

vs-code-agents/skills/code-review-checklist/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Review Checklist

Systematic review criteria for evaluating code and plans. Use this skill when:

  • Critic reviews plans before implementation
  • Security agent conducts code audits
  • Architect reviews architectural compliance
  • UAT validates implementation quality

Review Context

This skill supports two review phases:

Phase Agent Focus Documents
Pre-Implementation Critic Plan quality, clarity, completeness planning/*.md
Post-Implementation Security, Architect Code quality, security, architecture Source code

Pre-Implementation Review (Critic)

Value Statement Assessment (MUST START HERE)

Check Question Finding Severity
Presence Does plan have clear value statement in user story format? CRITICAL if missing
Clarity Is "So that" outcome measurable or verifiable? HIGH if vague
Alignment Does value support Master Product Objective? CRITICAL if drift
Directness Is value delivered directly, not deferred? HIGH if deferred

Plan Completeness

Check Question Finding Severity
Scope Are boundaries clearly defined? MEDIUM
Deliverables Are all deliverables listed with acceptance criteria? HIGH
Dependencies Are dependencies identified and sequenced? MEDIUM
Risks Are risks documented with mitigations? LOW
Version Is semver bump specified with rationale? MEDIUM

Constraint Compliance

Check Question Finding Severity
No Code Does plan avoid prescriptive code? LOW
No How Does plan focus on WHAT/WHY, not HOW? LOW
Architecture Does plan respect architectural constraints? HIGH

Post-Implementation Review (Security/Architect)

Security Checklist

Category Check Severity
Input Validation All user input validated server-side? CRITICAL
Authentication Auth checks on all protected routes? CRITICAL
Authorization RBAC/ownership verified before access? CRITICAL
Secrets No hardcoded credentials or keys? CRITICAL
SQL/Injection Parameterized queries used? CRITICAL
XSS Output encoding applied? HIGH
CSRF Tokens on state-changing requests? HIGH
Logging Security events logged without sensitive data? MEDIUM
Dependencies No known CVEs in dependencies? Varies

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 1mo ago First seen · 154 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 16c8a5e929d1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review-checklist is a skill published in the GitHub repository groupzer0/vs-code-agents (292 stars, last pushed 9mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,229 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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