duck-review

duck-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero. It costs 60 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rubber-duck review session for code changes, where you explain what changed and predict possible consequences before committing, pushing, or opening a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarise a diff, explain important edits, identify affected behaviour, discuss alternative approaches, and prepare a change for review.
Why use it?
It makes you check your reasoning and consider what the change might break before it reaches other people or environments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the rubber-duck-tutor plugin — 6 skills shipped together

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/leejuoh/claude-code-zero/duck-review
Any agent
npx skills add LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero --skill duck-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install rubber-duck-tutor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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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 duck-review

README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 713 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 5.1 $0.00060 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 5d ago against content hash 35f2f0b5a5de, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

duck-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.

plugins/rubber-duck-tutor/skills/duck-review/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Duck — PR / Change Review Mode

Read first: ../ducking/engine.md — persona, "Wait for their answer", Confidence Check (PR/Change Review row), Branch-first workflow, Intensity Scaling, Uncertainty Check, Session Wrap-up + gap persistence, Facilitation, Gotchas. They apply here.

Input: Run git diff (or git diff --staged, or PR diff).

Flow

  1. One-sentence summary — always ground the question in the diff's scope:

Your turn: You touched [list the changed files/areas from the diff]. Summarize this entire change in one sentence — what does it do?

  1. Drill into 2-3 key changes from the diff:

Your turn: In [file:line_range], you changed [specific thing]. Why?

  1. Impact assessment:

Your turn: What existing behavior could this change break? Where should we look?

→ Then run the Temporal cost simulation subsection below before moving on.

  1. Generation vs comparison (when appropriate):

Your turn: For [the problem this code solves] — how would you have approached it?

After their answer, compare with the actual implementation. Discuss trade-offs.

  1. Confidence check — run the PR/Change Review row from the Confidence Check (shared) table.

Temporal cost simulation

Frame the change on a 6-month horizon, not just "does it work now":

Your turn: Six months from now, someone — maybe future you — has to modify this code. Where's it going to hurt first? Why?

Follow-ups depending on their answer:

  • Names a specific file/function → "Why is that spot fragile? What assumption in the current structure breaks first?"
  • "Nothing feels fragile" → "What's that confidence based on? What abstraction in this diff guarantees that?"
  • Vague ("kind of everywhere") → "Just one spot. If you commit this now, what's the first thing you'll regret?"

Question Frameworks

Assumptions — "What has to be true for this change to hold up?" Surface dependencies on other code, data formats, or system state.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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 · 62 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 35f2f0b5a5de

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duck-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeeJuOh/claude-code-zero (51 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 713 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.