aw-review-quality-gate

aw-review-quality-gate is a skill for Claude Code from mthines/agent-skills. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review-checking step that examines each reported code problem before it is shown to a developer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after code, design, or user-experience review tools produce findings and before delivering or acting on those findings.
Why use it?
It filters out vague, unsupported, misplaced, duplicated, or false reports so reviews contain issues worth acting on.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the mthines-agent-skills plugin — 55 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after code, design, or user-experience review tools produce findings and before delivering or acting on those findings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mthines/agent-skills/aw-review-quality-gate
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 mthines/agent-skills --skill aw-review-quality-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mthines/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mthines-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 55 skills, 4 agents.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,004 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00075 $0.01004
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00100

Measured 11d ago against content hash b980b0d45559, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aw-review-quality-gate 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 11d 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.

skills/workflow/aw-review-quality-gate/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Quality Gate

Run this gate on every finding you have generated, before formatting output or delivering results. The gate catches false positives, noise, and miscalibrated severity — the most common failure modes of single-pass review.


When to Use

  • As the autonomous-workflow Phase 6 review companion — invoked via Skill() after review-changes returns findings, before the workflow acts on them. See phase-6-pr-creation.md#findings-quality-gate. Graceful skip: the workflow acts on the raw findings if this skill is not installed.
  • After the pr-reviewer agent generates findings (Step 2.5).
  • After DX or UX review skills produce their finding lists.
  • Any time a skill produces actionable recommendations that a human will read.

Gate Checklist

For each finding, answer every question. Be honest — a dropped false positive is worth more than a delivered one.

# Question Fail means
1 Is it actionable? The author can do something concrete. No "consider", "might want to", or "could be improved" without a specific fix. Finding is vague noise
2 Did I read the surrounding code? Not just the diff hunk — the full function, the caller, the guard clause three lines up. Finding may be wrong
3 Is severity calibrated? A style nit is never "required." A SQL injection is never "suggestion." Re-check the severity assignment against the actual impact. Severity is misleading
4 Are file path and line number accurate? Verify the cited location against actual file content. A finding pointing to the wrong line is worse than no finding. Finding is unlocatable
5 Does this duplicate linter/formatter/type-checker output? If the project's toolchain would catch this automatically, do not flag it. Focus on semantic issues the toolchain cannot see. Finding is redundant
6 Is this actually true? Re-read the function in full context. Check: is the "bug" handled elsewhere? Is the "unused import" used in a type annotation? Is the "missing null check" guarded by the caller? Is the "race condition" prevented by a lock you didn't notice? Finding is a false positive

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 11d ago First seen · 90 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A b980b0d45559

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aw-review-quality-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository mthines/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,004 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 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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