review

review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JuliusBrussee/cavekit. It costs 139 tokens per session (1,032 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specification review skill that acts as a skeptical senior reviewer before coding begins. It checks the proposed work against the codebase, research, tests, documentation, and stated requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge plans for changes with a large impact, such as shared modules, authentication, payments, or public APIs.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing requirements, weak assumptions, and risks before they become expensive implementation mistakes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ck plugin — 8 skills, 7 commands shipped together

About the project

cavekit is a Claude Code plugin that organizes software changes through a compact, spec-driven workflow stored in a SPEC.md file. It is for developers who want to plan, research, review, and build changes while preserving project context across sessions; the catalogue entries are its skills, commands, plugin configuration, and workflow rules.

JuliusBrussee/cavekit · 1,142 stars · on GitHub

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ck, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 7 commands.

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.

agentmods badge for review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/juliusbrussee/cavekit/review.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/juliusbrussee/cavekit/review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/juliusbrussee/cavekit/review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/juliusbrussee/cavekit/review.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,032 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 $0.00139 $0.01032
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.00516
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00103

Measured 5d ago against content hash 15dff7dab0a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

review — refute the spec before build

Every finding cites evidence — file:line or a source. No evidence → flag [unverified]. Default to refuted: a flaw you cannot prove is a flaw you note, not one you wave through.

An LLM cannot self-correct on its own judgment — left alone it drifts or degrades. Review fixes that the only way that works: a separate skeptic anchored to an external oracle — the code, §R, the test suite, the docs. "Looks good" is not a review. A refutation attempt is.

WHEN TO REVIEW

  • Before /build on a high-blast-radius change (shared module, auth, data, money, public API).
  • Spec touched §I or §V that other code depends on.
  • Right-sizing says the cost of a wrong build > the cost of one review pass.

Skip for a trivial, reversible, well-understood change. Adversarial review on a typo hallucinates flaws & wastes the budget — the self-critique paradox is real.

PHASE 0 — CAPTURE

Read the spec: §G §C §I §R §V §T. Hold the whole thing. You review the spec, not your memory of the conversation.

PHASE 1 — CONSTRUCT THE SENIOR

Build a reviewer with real authority, not a generic critic:

  • Codebase — grep/read the modules this spec touches. What patterns, what invariants already hold?
  • §R — what did research establish? A spec decision that contradicts §R is a finding.
  • Live — for any best-practice claim you are unsure of, fetch it. An out-of-date assumption is a flaw.

A reviewer with no evidence is just an opinion. Earn the authority first.

PHASE 2 — REFUTE

Attack the spec on these axes. For each, try to find the case where it breaks:

  • Goal vs reality — does §G solve the actual problem, or a proxy?
  • Missing invariant — what can go wrong that no §V catches? (most findings live here)
  • Interface drift — does §I match what callers already expect? (cite the caller, file:line)
  • Constraint conflict — do two §C bullets contradict? does one fight §R?
  • Unowned edge — the input, ordering, failure, or concurrency case no §T covers.
  • Altitude — §T too vague to act on, or so granular it is just typing?

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 5d ago First seen · 86 lines · 139 tokens per session scan A 15dff7dab0a7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review is a skill published in the GitHub repository JuliusBrussee/cavekit (1,142 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 1,032 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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