What is review-rules?

An audit of the main instruction files that guide an AI coding assistant in a project.

Use it to review CLAUDE.md, rule files, settings, and workflow definitions after process changes or during regular maintenance.

It finds oversized, outdated, duplicated, or inconsistent instructions, including mismatches with automated checks. It records each finding as a task on a project board.

review-rules — Skill for Claude Code by HuntsDesk/ve-kit

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 HuntsDesk/ve-kit --skill review-rules

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HuntsDesk/ve-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,325 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00071	$0.01325
Opus 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00530
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00265
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00133

Measured 27d ago against content hash 7e3a15726440, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-rules 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 27d 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.

skills/review-rules/SKILL.md · 132 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 132 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rules & Core Instructions Review Protocol

Reviews the always-loaded instruction layer that governs every Claude Code session in this repo. Scope:

CLAUDE.md (project root)
.claude/rules/*.md
.claude/settings.json hooks config (only to verify rule-hook alignment)

Part of the review-* skill family. Cites ../_shared/review-checklist.md and ../_shared/anthropic-configuration-guide.md.

Owner: docs-manager agent.

When to invoke

CLAUDE.md approaching 150 lines (lean limit) or > 200 lines
After significant process changes (new hooks, new RIPER modes, new deployment patterns)
Quarterly audit
When new team members or agents repeatedly make mistakes the rules should prevent

Output contract

Board tasks only. Lean summary to main agent.

Step 1 — Inventory

Read CLAUDE.md. Record line count, section list, referenced rules/skills/docs/agents.
Read every .claude/rules/*.md. Record line count, topic, referenced files.
Read .claude/settings.json hooks block. Record which hooks exist and what they enforce.

Step 2 — Size discipline

Artifact	Target	Hard limit
CLAUDE.md	< 150 lines	200 lines
Individual rule	< 200 lines	300 lines

Flag bloat. Recommend:

CLAUDE.md bloat → push detail into a new rule or existing rule
Rule bloat → split by sub-topic or move deep reference to a skill / doc

Step 3 — Staleness

For each rule and for CLAUDE.md, check:

Deprecated infrastructure references (Supabase Edge Functions, old table names, retired services)
Domain names and URLs still current ( variants, MIG host IDs, LB IP <YOUR_LB_IP>)
Model IDs match current Anthropic lineup (Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5 — claude-opus-5-5, claude-fable-5-1); Opus is the agent default
Command references valid (Enter C -push-dev, Enter C -push, Enter C -all)
Stripe API version current (2026-04-22.dahlia per CLAUDE.md)
Referenced docs exist (every [link](path) resolves)
Referenced agents exist in .claude/agents/
Referenced skills exist in .claude/skills/

Read the full file on GitHub · 132 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.

27d ago Changed 7e3a15726440
1mo ago Changed 69fd5925a103
1mo ago Changed · +14 tokens per session 986b7213932a
1mo ago First seen · 132 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 9fa65d754ec4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-rules is a skill published in the GitHub repository HuntsDesk/ve-kit (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,325 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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review-rules

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

Rules & Core Instructions Review Protocol

When to invoke

Output contract

Step 1 — Inventory

Step 2 — Size discipline

Step 3 — Staleness

What this file has done since we first saw it

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