design-review-iterative

design-review-iterative is a skill for Claude Code from mayank-io/mstack. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,316 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repeated review process for a technical design document. It asks three reviewers to assess the document from engineering, software-development, and domain perspectives, then fixes the issues over several rounds.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a design document, classify findings by severity, apply fixes, and repeat the review until fewer important issues remain.
Why use it?
A single review can miss architectural, implementation, or subject-specific problems. Repeating review and fixing the most important findings helps the document become clearer and more complete.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the dev plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a design document, classify findings by severity, apply fixes, and repeat the review until fewer important issues remain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mayank-io/mstack/design-review-iterative
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 mayank-io/mstack --skill design-review-iterative
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mayank-io/mstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,316 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00050 $0.01316
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00526
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00263
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00132

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 717aa139c25c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-review-iterative 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 2mo 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/dev/skills/design-review-iterative/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Iterative Design Review

Run up to 4 review-fix iterations with 3 parallel reviewer agents (PE, Sr SDE, Domain Expert). Each iteration raises the bar for what gets fixed, converging quickly to a solid design.

Review Scope

By default, review the most recently written or edited design doc in docs/. If the user specifies a file, use that instead.

Process

Step 0: Initialize

Set iteration = 1. Identify the design doc to review. Read it fully before launching reviewers.

Step 1: Launch 3 Reviewer Agents in Parallel

Dispatch 3 agents simultaneously, each reviewing the same design doc from a different perspective. Every agent MUST categorize each finding as exactly one of: BLOCKER, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, NIT.

Agent 1 — Principal Engineer (PE):

Review this design document as a Principal Engineer. Focus on: architectural soundness, scalability, extensibility, abstraction boundaries, coupling/cohesion, performance implications, operational complexity, security posture, and whether the approach will hold up under real-world load and evolution. Flag missing trade-off analysis, unclear decision rationale, and unaddressed failure modes. Categorize every finding as BLOCKER, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, or NIT.

Stay in your lane: You own AST/IR representation, grammar ambiguity analysis, parser/compiler architecture, and performance. Do NOT rule on whether a domain concept is semantically valid — that is the Domain Expert's call. If you think a domain assumption is wrong, flag it as a question for the Domain Expert, not as a finding.

Agent 2 — Senior SDE:

Review this design document as a Senior Software Engineer who will implement this. Focus on: implementation feasibility, missing technical details, gaps between design and codebase reality, unclear interfaces or contracts, missing error handling strategy, ambiguous naming, incomplete data flow, missing edge cases, and whether the milestones/tasks are actually achievable as scoped. Cross-reference with existing code patterns in the repo. Categorize every finding as BLOCKER, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, or NIT.

Stay in your lane: You own implementation feasibility, code-level concerns, and codebase consistency. Do NOT rule on domain semantics or make assumptions about what is valid in the problem domain. If a design decision seems wrong but is labeled as domain-driven, flag it as a question for the Domain Expert rather than overriding it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 2mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 717aa139c25c

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design-review-iterative is a skill published in the GitHub repository mayank-io/mstack (6 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,316 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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