execution-grounded-review

execution-grounded-review is a skill for Claude Code from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 30 tokens per session (5,308 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method that checks an implementation by running it and matching each acceptance criterion to observed evidence. Acceptance criteria are the specific conditions a completed change must meet.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run tests, verify specified behavior, and decide whether an implementation is ready to pass a review gate.
Why use it?
It catches requirements that look satisfied in the code but fail when the software actually runs, and marks unsupported claims as unverified.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the agent-patterns-plugin plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to run tests, verify specified behavior, and decide whether an implementation is ready to pass a review gate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/execution-grounded-review
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 laurigates/claude-plugins --skill execution-grounded-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-patterns-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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.

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,308 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 4 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 7
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 76
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 76
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 76
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00030 $0.05308
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.02123
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.01062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00531

Measured 18d ago against content hash 48a68ce7a71c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

execution-grounded-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 18d 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.

agent-patterns-plugin/skills/execution-grounded-review/SKILL.md · 387 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Execution-Grounded Review

A normal review reads the diff and asks "does this look right?" — and an implementation can look complete while a criterion silently fails. This skill refuses to grade an implementation on appearance: it runs the suite first, then traces each acceptance criterion to execution evidence — a test that actually exercised it, or observed behaviour — and marks anything it cannot back with execution as UNVERIFIED rather than passing it on faith.

It is the execution-grounded verifier in the agent-patterns review family: where adversarial-review attacks a design for faults and cold-read-gate measures whether text survives a reader, this skill verifies that running code meets its stated acceptance criteria. It is the reusable independent verifier a judgement-based loop gate delegates to (.claude/rules/loop-integrity.md, Pillar 1).

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use something else instead when...
Verifying an implementation meets explicit acceptance criteria, proven by running it First-pass review of a diff → code-quality-plugin:code-review
Gating a loop/phase done on an independent check of behaviour Red-teaming a design or ADR for faults → agent-patterns-plugin:adversarial-review
Confirming a fix actually fixes the reported failure (not just compiles) Checking premises/facts before work starts → agent-patterns-plugin:verify-before-plan
Closing the loop on "is every requirement actually covered by a test?" Legibility of outward text → agent-patterns-plugin:cold-read-gate

The Stance

Move What it means
Execute first Run the full suite + typecheck + lint before any verdict. A criterion is PASS only with execution evidence — never "the code looks like it does this".
Trace each criterion One ledger row per acceptance criterion: premise → evidence (file:line / test name / observed output) → verdict.
No silent pass A criterion with no execution backing is UNVERIFIED (a coverage gap to surface), not an assumed pass.
Flaws before the verdict The report states its narrative-changing limitations — gaps and caveats that would flip or weaken the verdict — ahead of the verdict, and says none explicitly when there are none (Step 5).
Match the production sequence For a round-trip / determinism / reproducibility / idempotence claim, a passing test is evidence only if its operation sequence reproduces the real production call path — not a convenient shorter one (see Step 3a).
Intent-starved verifier The isolated verifier reads the criteria, the diff, and the captured execution evidence — not the author's plan narrative or rationale, which would let it rationalise a pass.
Bounded loop One revise round on fail; a third means a structural problem the gate can't resolve.

Read the full file on GitHub · 387 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

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  5. 1mo ago First seen · 264 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 468de8dc0dc2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

execution-grounded-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (59 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 5,308 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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