review

A review workflow that checks uncommitted code with separate reviewers for tests, security, code quality, simplification, and architecture.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it as a pre-commit check for staged, unstaged, and untracked files.
Why use it?
It gathers several kinds of review before you commit changes, helping reveal defects and design problems in the current working tree.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup/review
Any agent
npx skills add michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup --skill review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,589 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 $0.00000 $0.03589
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01795
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00718
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00359

Measured yesterday against content hash 0b58ce33a99d, 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/skills/review/SKILL.md · 307 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 307 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/review

Run the full review panel — test-specialist, security-auditor, code-reviewer, code-simplifier, and architecture-reviewer — in parallel against the current uncommitted working tree, then return one consolidated verdict.

Use this as a pre-commit gate, after exploratory work outside /work, or any time you want a comprehensive review of "what's on disk right now."

Usage

/review

No arguments. The skill always operates on the current working tree (staged + unstaged + untracked).

Scope

"Uncommitted changes" means everything that differs from HEAD:

  • Tracked changesgit diff HEAD --name-only (covers both staged and unstaged)
  • Untracked files — entries from git status --porcelain whose status code is ??

If both lists are empty, exit immediately with "Nothing to review — working tree matches HEAD." Do not launch any agents.

Constraints

  • /review does not modify production code. The four reviewers (security-auditor, code-reviewer, code-simplifier, architecture-reviewer) are read-only. test-specialist is the one carve-out: it may add new test files and fix failures introduced by its own new tests — but never bootstrap test infra, modify unrelated tests, or touch non-test source. The user decides what to do with the verdict.
  • If an agent errors out (timeout, missing definition, runtime failure, or returns an unparseable response the synthesizer can't extract a verdict and findings from), mark it UNAVAILABLE with a one-line reason in the per-agent results, do not retry, and compute the overall verdict from the remaining agents.

Why test-specialist is allowed to write (but not bootstrap): the goal of /review is comprehensive pre-commit confidence, and "no test exists for the new code" is a gap the panel should close, not just report. Bootstrapping a test framework, in contrast, is a structural project decision (framework choice, layout, scripts) that belongs in /work, not as a side effect of a review pass. New test files are flagged under "Per-agent results" so the user knows they weren't themselves reviewed in this pass — they'll be on the next /review run.

Read the full file on GitHub · 307 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. yesterday First seen · 307 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0b58ce33a99d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review is a skill published in the GitHub repository michaelcjoseph/agent-coding-setup (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,589 tokens. 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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