code-review-excellence

code-review-excellence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,191 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of code-review-excellence, MIT.

A guide to reviewing code changes constructively and consistently. It covers pull requests, review checklists, architecture discussions, mentoring, and feedback focused on bugs, maintainability, standards, and design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review pull requests, create team review standards, assess architecture, mentor developers, and improve the quality and speed of code reviews.
Why use it?
It helps teams catch problems early without turning reviews into personal criticism or unnecessary gatekeeping. Clear, prioritized feedback also spreads knowledge and keeps changes moving.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review pull requests, create team review standards, assess architecture, mentor developers, and improve the quality and speed of code reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/code-review-excellence
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC --skill code-review-excellence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,191 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.03191
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01596
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00319

Measured 8d ago against content hash f23076a5e5d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review-excellence 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to code-review-excellence — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

SKILLS/WSHOBSON PLUGINS/developer-essentials/code-review-excellence/SKILL.md · 542 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 542 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Review Excellence

Transform code reviews from gatekeeping to knowledge sharing through constructive feedback, systematic analysis, and collaborative improvement.

When to Use This Skill

  • Reviewing pull requests and code changes
  • Establishing code review standards for teams
  • Mentoring junior developers through reviews
  • Conducting architecture reviews
  • Creating review checklists and guidelines
  • Improving team collaboration
  • Reducing code review cycle time
  • Maintaining code quality standards

Core Principles

1. The Review Mindset

Goals of Code Review:

  • Catch bugs and edge cases
  • Ensure code maintainability
  • Share knowledge across team
  • Enforce coding standards
  • Improve design and architecture
  • Build team culture

Not the Goals:

  • Show off knowledge
  • Nitpick formatting (use linters)
  • Block progress unnecessarily
  • Rewrite to your preference

2. Effective Feedback

Good Feedback is:

  • Specific and actionable
  • Educational, not judgmental
  • Focused on the code, not the person
  • Balanced (praise good work too)
  • Prioritized (critical vs nice-to-have)
❌ Bad: "This is wrong."
✅ Good: "This could cause a race condition when multiple users
access simultaneously. Consider using a mutex here."

❌ Bad: "Why didn't you use X pattern?"
✅ Good: "Have you considered the Repository pattern? It would
make this easier to test. Here's an example: [link]"

❌ Bad: "Rename this variable."
✅ Good: "[nit] Consider `userCount` instead of `uc` for
clarity. Not blocking if you prefer to keep it."

3. Review Scope

What to Review:

  • Logic correctness and edge cases
  • Security vulnerabilities
  • Performance implications
  • Test coverage and quality
  • Error handling
  • Documentation and comments
  • API design and naming
  • Architectural fit

What Not to Review Manually:

  • Code formatting (use Prettier, Black, etc.)
  • Import organization
  • Linting violations
  • Simple typos

Review Process

Phase 1: Context Gathering (2-3 minutes)

Read the full file on GitHub · 542 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. 8d ago First seen · 542 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A f23076a5e5d6

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code-review-excellence is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,191 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to code-review-excellence, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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