skill-review

A review procedure for checking a skill file before it is published, merged, deployed, or listed in a marketplace. A skill file contains instructions that guide an AI coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing a SKILL.md file and its linked checklist, then reporting passed checks, warnings, errors, and prioritized recommendations.
Why use it?
It turns a quality check into a structured pass, warning, or error report and explains why each problem matters.

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/hamsurang/kit/skill-review
Any agent
npx skills add hamsurang/kit --skill skill-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamsurang/kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 553 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 $0.00064 $0.00553
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ac2025266e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-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 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.

plugins/skill-review/skills/skill-review/SKILL.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

Skill Review

Reviews a SKILL.md against established best practices and outputs a structured pass/fail report with prioritized recommendations.

Contents

Locating the Target Skill

With explicit path: Use the provided path directly (supports both SKILL.md files and plugin directories).

Without path — search in this order:

  1. Current directory: ./SKILL.md
  2. Plugin skill dirs: ./plugins/*/skills/*/SKILL.md
  3. Prompt the user if multiple matches found

Review Workflow

  1. Read SKILL.md and any files in references/ that it links to
  2. Run each check in references/checklist.md — assign PASS ✅, WARNING ⚠️, or ERROR ❌
  3. Output the structured report below

Be educational, not just a linter — include a brief explanation of why each finding matters.

Output Format

## Skill Review: [skill-name]

### Summary
**Status:** PASS / NEEDS WORK / FAIL
**Score:** N/N checks passed | N warnings | N errors

### ✅ Passed (N)
- [Check description]
- ...

### ⚠️ Warnings (N)
- **[Check name]**: [finding] — [brief explanation of why it matters]
- ...

### ❌ Errors (N)
- **[Check name]**: [finding] — [why it must be fixed before publishing]
- ...

### 📋 Prioritized Recommendations
1. [Most critical fix first]
2. ...

Severity Definitions

Severity Meaning
❌ Error Violates a spec requirement. Must fix before publishing.
⚠️ Warning Best practice violation. Should fix for quality.
✅ Pass Meets the standard.

Full Rubric

See references/checklist.md for all checks organized by category (frontmatter, description quality, naming, content, structure, scripts, plugin manifest).

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 77 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8ac2025266e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamsurang/kit (19 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 553 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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