code-review

code-review is a skill for Claude Code from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 113 tokens per session (2,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A two-stage review method for code changes: first compare the code with the written requirements, then assess quality. It looks for both missing behavior and extra behavior that was not requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review or re-review a pull request or diff for specification compliance, correctness, error handling, security, performance, and test quality.
Why use it?
It keeps reviewers from approving code without checking the specification first. It also encourages questions when evidence is insufficient instead of unsupported approval.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the specseal plugin — 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review or re-review a pull request or diff for specification compliance, correctness, error handling, security, performance, and test quality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michaelycjo/specseal/code-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 MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal --skill code-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specseal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for code-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/code-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/code-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/code-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/code-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for code-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/code-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michaelycjo/specseal/code-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,167 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 $0.00113 $0.02167
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00867
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00217

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1df6125b6022, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/chain_check.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/code-review/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

code-review — spec first, then quality

Assume the code has defects, and look for them. A pass with no grounds is forbidden: where you are unsure, write a question, not a pass. A session orchestrating a review run reads skills/code-review/orchestration.md before round 1.

Two stages, in order

  1. Spec compliance: the code against the written spec, the docs/ policies first and then the work item's SDD set under seal/specs/. Look for behaviour that is missing and for behaviour nobody asked for. Read the code, not the implementer's report of it.
  2. Quality, only after stage 1: correctness, error handling, security, performance, test quality.

The work item's overview.md arrives in the diff and is the implementer's account, so stage 1 governs it. Its divergences, its ## Not verified rows and the clauses it fed back into the spec are claims to check, and an account citing a clause it added is citing itself. Settle what you can; what only a person can answer stays a question. Do not edit it.

Review beyond the changed files: new code that calls into untouched files puts their conditions and boundaries into effect for the first time, so follow every call the change introduces. check: evals/behaviour/warden/rule-warden-one-finding/

Comparison axes

Fix the axes before starting and cover all of them.

Axis Compare
Inputs names, types, required/optional, defaults, accepted ranges
Authorization who acts/queries as whom; self/admin/other branches
Query scope which set is targeted: period, ownership, status filters
Exclusions & boundaries excluded states, overlap conditions, boundary values (rarely written down — most frequent divergence point)
Deliberate non-exclusions what the spec intentionally does not filter; new code tends to "clean it up"
Ordering, dedup, response shape sort keys, tie-breaking, dedup basis, included/excluded fields
Error paths failure conditions, codes, messages; failure vs. empty result. Count new failure paths the change introduces separately — someone must classify each as fix or regression
State transitions against the spec's state machine, if one exists
Concurrency & atomicity what can change between the read that decides and the write that acts: state held across an external call or await, transaction boundary against lock scope, whether a retry executes twice
Security who can reach this path and as whom; the trust of every input that crosses an OS or process boundary; whether each failure fails open or closed; what a crafted name, path, or payload reaches

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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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Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 2,167 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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