code-review-standards

A code-review guide with checklists, severity levels, and document templates for judging whether code is clear, correct, maintainable, and aligned with the design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review implementation code, define project review rules, classify problems by severity, and prepare code-review documents.
Why use it?
It gives reviews a consistent structure and makes findings easier to explain and prioritize. It also checks areas such as test-first development (TDD), where tests are written before implementation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00027 $0.01169
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured 2d ago against content hash cc59c0c8c07a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review-standards 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 2d 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.

vs-code-agents/skills/code-review-standards/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 Standards

Systematic approach to code review. Use this skill when:

  • Performing code reviews
  • Defining review criteria for a project
  • Understanding severity levels for findings
  • Creating code review documents

Review Focus Areas

Use this checklist when reviewing implementation code:

Category What to Review
Architecture Alignment Does implementation match Architect's design? Follows system-architecture.md patterns?
SOLID Principles SRP, OCP, LSP, ISP, DIP violations (load engineering-standards for detection patterns)
DRY/YAGNI/KISS Duplication, speculative generalization, over-complexity
TDD Compliance TDD Compliance table present in implementation doc? All rows show test-first?
Code Smells Long Method, Large Class, Feature Envy, etc. (see engineering-standards)
Documentation & Comments Appropriate inline comments explaining "why" (not "what"), function docstrings, module-level docs, complex logic explained
Naming & Clarity Self-documenting names, appropriate abstractions, readable code
Error Handling Defensive coding, graceful failures, appropriate exceptions
Security Quick Scan Obvious vulnerabilities (injection, exposed secrets, hardcoded creds)
Performance Obvious inefficiencies, N+1 patterns, memory leaks
Observability Appropriate logging, telemetry for debugging

Severity Levels

Severity Definition Action
CRITICAL Security vulnerability, data loss risk, architectural violation REJECT - must fix
HIGH Anti-pattern, significant maintainability issue, missing tests REJECT - must fix
MEDIUM Code smell, minor design issue, unclear code Fix recommended, may approve with comments
LOW Style preference, minor optimization opportunity Note for future, approve
INFO Observation, suggestion for improvement FYI only

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 2d ago First seen · 154 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A cc59c0c8c07a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review-standards is a skill published in the GitHub repository groupzer0/vs-code-agents (284 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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