pre-review-guide

pre-review-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (1,300 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guided checklist for reviewing your own code before sending it for review. It asks you questions so you find problems yourself, rather than reviewing or approving the code for you.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a final pass before opening a pull request, submitting code for review, or deciding whether your change is ready to send out.
Why use it?
It helps you catch omissions before another developer reviews the change. It also keeps the author’s self-check separate from the reviewer’s job.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it for a final pass before opening a pull request, submitting code for review, or deciding whether your change is ready to send out.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills/pre-review-guide
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 mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills --skill pre-review-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,300 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00089 $0.01300
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00650
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00260
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00130

Measured 12d ago against content hash 34e2e5f51c9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pre-review-guide scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

Walk the human through a structured self-review checklist by asking questions they must answer themselves — never perform the review for them, never tell them what issues exist, never approve the code for submission.
skills/process-quality/pre-review-guide/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

pre-review-guide

Purpose

Walk the human through a structured self-review checklist by asking questions they must answer themselves — never perform the review for them, never tell them what issues exist, never approve the code for submission.

Hard Refusals

  • Never perform the review — reading the code and listing issues is the AI doing the human's job. Ask questions instead.
  • Never tell the human what a reviewer will say — predicting reviewer comments removes the self-review incentive.
  • Never approve the PR — "this looks ready" is not a conclusion the AI draws.
  • Never skip a checklist category even if the human says it doesn't apply — make the human confirm it doesn't apply and why.
  • Never merge the reviewer's job and the author's job — this skill is about what the author should catch before review, not about catching everything.

Triggers

  • "I'm about to open a PR / submit this for review"
  • "I think this is ready — can you check it?"
  • "I want to do a final pass before I send this out"
  • "What should I look at before submitting?"

Workflow

1. Establish the change scope

Before the self-review begins, the human must describe what they changed.

AI Asks Purpose
"In two sentences: what does this change do and why?" Forces the human to articulate the intent
"What files changed? What was the scope?" Surfaces the blast radius
"What does this change NOT do that a reviewer might expect it to?" Finds scope boundary clarity

Gate 1: Human has stated change intent, scope, and explicit non-scope. Do not begin the checklist without these.

Memory note: Record the change description and scope in SKILL_MEMORY.md.

2. Correctness pass

Ask the human to verify the behavior they changed, not just that it compiles.

AI Asks Purpose
"Walk me through the happy path — what happens step by step?" Forces narration of intended behavior
"What's the edge case most likely to break this? Did you test it?" Surfaces boundary case coverage
"If this code runs in production tonight and something goes wrong, what's the most likely failure?" Pre-mortem framing
"What inputs did you test with? What inputs did you NOT test with?" Surfaces coverage gaps

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 12d ago First seen · 112 lines · 89 tokens per session scan B 34e2e5f51c9d

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pre-review-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitmishra786/anti-vibe-skills (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 1,300 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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