review-depth

review-depth is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills. It costs 180 tokens per session (6,094 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A procedure for choosing how thoroughly to review a code change: quick, standard, or deep. It bases the choice on signals such as change size, affected directories, security-sensitive boundaries, and likely impact.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps select the review effort before a house-review run and passes that choice to the review process.
Why use it?
It prevents small changes from receiving unnecessary scrutiny and large or risky changes from receiving too little.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps select the review effort before a house-review run and passes that choice to the review process.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 6,094 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 $0.06094
Opus 5 $0.00090 $0.03047
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.01219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00609

Measured 6d ago against content hash 982cc67ac434, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-depth 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 6d 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/review-depth/SKILL.md · 374 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 374 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

review-depth

Match review effort to what the change is worth. This skill runs before house-review and decides one thing: how hard to look. It then hands that decision to house-review, which does the actual reviewing.

It exists because effort was the one review parameter nothing set. house-review already bounds how much it reads against the diff stat, but a one-line typo fix and a 900-line change across scripts/, tests/, and a contract directory otherwise get the same treatment. That produces one of two failures, and which one depends on the reviewer's mood rather than on the change: small changes get over-reviewed until the author learns to skim reviews, or large risky ones get under-reviewed, which is the failure that costs something.

It selects; it does not review. The rubric categories and the blocker / major / minor / nit severities live in the review-quality lens, and the review procedure lives in house-review. Nothing here restates either. Depth changes how much is read and how exhaustively the rubric is swept. It never changes what a finding is or what proof it needs.

When to use

  • Before any house-review run where the size or risk of the change is not obvious at a glance.
  • When the user asks how carefully something should be reviewed, or whether a change is worth a full review.
  • When reviewing a whole branch, a backlog of commits, or a batch of agent worktrees, where the changesets differ enough that one effort setting is wrong for most of them.
  • When the user names a depth ("quick look at this", "deep review please"). Detection is skipped, but running this skill still records the signals, so an override that was a mistake is visible.

When not to use

  • To review anything. That is house-review. This skill stops at the selection block and the handoff.
  • To decide whether a change should be reviewed at all. Every change is reviewed; quick is the floor, not "skip it".
  • To gate a merge. A depth is not a verdict. Verdicts come from house-review findings, and readiness from spec-plan-readiness or verifier-agent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 374 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. 6d ago Changed · +7 lines 982cc67ac434
  2. 10d ago First seen · 367 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A ddea82d28378

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review-depth is a skill published in the GitHub repository hams-ollo/zen-agent-skills (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 6,094 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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