house-review

house-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills. It costs 180 tokens per session (3,589 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review helper that checks a change against a defined team checklist and severity levels, then writes a structured Markdown report without changing files.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews the current branch's changes, reports issues from blockers to minor notes, and suggests concrete fixes.
Why use it?
It gives reviewers a consistent way to find and rank problems, with each finding tied to a specific line and code excerpt.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It reviews the current branch's changes, reports issues from blockers to minor notes, and suggests concrete fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills/house-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 hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills --skill house-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,589 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 $0.00180 $0.03589
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.01795
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00718
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00359

Measured 7d ago against content hash cc833cc340ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

house-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 7d 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.

.agents/skills/house-review/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

house-review

A house-style code review with an explicit rubric and severities. It reads a change, applies the review-quality lens, and writes a structured review. It is report-only: it never edits or commits. Reconciling the findings is the author's call, handled by the human, /simplify, or fix-batch.

It is named for the house rubric it applies rather than for the act of reviewing, which also keeps it clear of the review commands several harnesses ship built in: a skill cannot resolve a namespace collision by asserting it is different, so the name avoids one instead. It composes a swappable lens (the moonray pattern: a reusable review "shot" a workflow composes, with findings validated before they are reported), so the review bar lives in one editable file and future quality skills can reuse it.

What it produces

A severity-ranked markdown review: a one-line verdict, then findings ordered blocker to nit, each with a file:line anchor, an exact quote of the cited code, a stable signature, the issue, why it matters, and a concrete suggested fix. When nothing substantive survives validation, it says so plainly.

Design choices

Settled decisions (resolved with the user); these are not up for re-litigation:

  • Rubric and severities live in the lens, review-quality.md: eight categories, and the blocker / major / minor / nit scheme. Edit the lens to retune the bar; it is swappable like house-style.md.
  • Report-only. The skill never edits or commits. Each finding carries a concrete fix in text.
  • Findings are validated before reporting (the lens's govern/revalidate step). A confident false positive costs more than a missed nit.
  • Validation is checked, not trusted. Every finding's quoted evidence is resolved against the file before the finding is reported, and one that resolves nowhere is dropped rather than hedged. The rule and its branches live in the lens; Step 4 below applies them.
  • Every reported finding carries a signature, defined by the lens, so the same defect found by two reviewers or across three runs is one countable defect. This skill emits it and reads nothing from it.
  • Three review modes: an explicit path scope reviews named files in full; an explicit base or range reviews that range as given, winning over the default and reported as supplied rather than resolved; otherwise the default is the branch vs its merge-base with the default branch (with a working-tree fallback), reusing pr-describe's changeset logic. A path scope and a range together narrow the second mode rather than producing a fourth.

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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. 7d ago Changed · +7 lines cc833cc340ce
  2. 11d ago First seen · 236 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A 4638d570a5ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

house-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 3,589 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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