claudesidian: Skill for Claude Code

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pragmatic-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from heyitsnoah/claudesidian. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,576 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review guide that checks whether changes are needlessly complex, using YAGNI (“You Aren’t Gonna Need It”) and KISS (“Keep It Simple, Stupid”) as its main principles. It can also check for basic security, performance, correctness, and maintainability issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing feature additions, bug fixes, refactors, architecture changes, or security-sensitive code. It is also for checking issues such as basic OWASP risks, obvious N+1 database queries, error handling, resource leaks, and missing tests or documentation.
Why use it?
It helps spot abstractions, features, and structures that add work without solving a current need. A deeper review can examine security, architecture, edge cases, performance, and maintainability in separate passes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

This is heyitsnoah/claudesidian's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on claudesidian itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claudesidian configures →

About the project

Claudesidian is a preconfigured Obsidian vault structure that lets Claude Code help manage a personal knowledge base as a thinking partner. It is for people who organize notes and other knowledge in Obsidian, with Git-based version control and optional integrations for image analysis and web research. The catalogue add-ons provide Claude Code skills, agents, hooks, and settings for working with this vault.

heyitsnoah/claudesidian · 2,583 stars · on GitHub

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Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,576 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00050 $0.02576
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01288
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00515
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00258

Measured 12d ago against content hash ea95c62817f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pragmatic-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 12d 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/pragmatic-review/SKILL.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pragmatic Code Review: YAGNI & KISS Focus

You will perform an interactive code review with laser focus on YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It) and KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principles.

Review Modes

Default mode: Fast YAGNI/KISS-focused review

  • Scans for over-engineering, unused abstractions, unnecessary complexity
  • Quick security and performance checks (OWASP basics, obvious N+1 queries)
  • Self-reflection to validate findings with evidence

Deep mode (--deep flag): Multi-pass comprehensive review

  • Pass 1: Security (OWASP Top 10, input validation, auth issues)
  • Pass 2: Architecture (SOLID principles, separation of concerns)
  • Pass 3: Logic (edge cases, error handling, correctness)
  • Pass 4: Performance (algorithm complexity, resource leaks)
  • Pass 5: YAGNI/KISS (over-engineering, unnecessary abstractions)
  • Pass 6: Maintainability (readability, tests, documentation)
  • Self-reflection after all passes

Use --deep when:

  • Security-critical changes (auth, payment, data handling)
  • Core architecture modifications
  • Complex logic changes with many edge cases
  • Performance-sensitive code paths

Use default mode when:

  • Feature additions
  • Bug fixes
  • Refactoring
  • Documentation changes

CI mode (--ci flag): Non-interactive mode for GitHub Actions

  • Skips ALL interactive prompts
  • Auto-selects: all branch changes vs base branch
  • Uses $GITHUB_BASE_REF environment variable if available
  • Outputs all findings at once as markdown (summary view)

Step 1: Determine Review Scope

Check Current Git State

First, verify we're in a git repository by running:

  • test -d .git to check if .git directory exists

If not in a git repository, ask the user to specify files to review manually.

If in a git repository, gather information:

Current branch:

Run: git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

Default branch detection:
  1. Try: git rev-parse --verify main
  2. If that fails, try: git rev-parse --verify master
  3. If that fails, try: git rev-parse --verify develop

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 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. 12d ago First seen · 352 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A ea95c62817f2

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pragmatic-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository heyitsnoah/claudesidian (2,583 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,576 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.