review

review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mtthsnc/tempest. It costs 68 tokens per session (940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A detailed review of a code difference, pull request, or group of changed files. It looks for correctness and security problems first, then checks error handling and opportunities to simplify or reuse code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before merging a change. It helps audit whether the implementation meets its intended behavior and find bugs, security holes, unnecessary complexity, and duplicated work.
Why use it?
It gives each issue a location, severity, proposed fix, and confidence level, making review findings easier to act on. Some high-confidence, low-risk fixes can also be applied and checked.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the tempest plugin — 8 skills, 9 commands shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install tempest, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 9 commands.

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 review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mtthsnc/tempest/review.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mtthsnc/tempest/review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mtthsnc/tempest/review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mtthsnc/tempest/review.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 940 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 $0.00068 $0.00940
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00470
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash c6c0608f4c6a, 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 4d 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/tempest/skills/review/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

review — audit a diff like a staff engineer

Overview

The quality gate. Read a change the way a careful senior reviewer would: hunt for real bugs and security holes first, then for ways the code could be simpler or reuse what already exists. Every finding gets a location, a concrete fix, and an honest confidence level — and the high-confidence, low-risk ones can be fixed and verified on the spot.

This is a STARTER skill — a generic spine. Rewrite the review lenses and the severity bar below to encode your own engineering opinions and standards.

The output is a grouped set of findings (must-fix vs. nits), optionally with applied-and-verified fixes. You review the change; you do not redesign it.

Procedure

1. Scope the diff

  • Establish exactly what changed and against what base (e.g. git diff <base>...HEAD, a PR, or the named files). If the base is ambiguous, ask before reviewing the wrong thing.
  • Restate in one sentence what the change is supposed to do. Review whether it does that — not just whether the code that's there is locally fine.
  • Read enough surrounding code to judge each change in context, not in isolation.

2. Review through distinct lenses

Pass over the diff once per lens (collapse or extend to taste):

  • Correctness / logic — off-by-one, null/empty/error paths, boundary and concurrency cases, wrong conditionals, broken invariants. Does it handle the inputs it will actually see?
  • Security — untrusted input, injection, authz/authn gaps, secrets, unsafe deserialization.
  • Error handling — swallowed errors, missing cleanup, failure modes left unhandled.
  • Simplification / reuse — is there an existing utility or pattern that makes a chunk of this unnecessary? Can it be smaller, clearer, or less duplicated?
  • Tests / coverage — are the new paths and edge cases tested? What's the gap?

3. Classify each finding

Tag every finding with:

  • Severity — must-fix (bug, security, data loss) vs. nit (style, taste).
  • Confidence — high (you can prove it) vs. a judgement call for the human. Give each finding a file:line reference and a concrete suggested fix. A finding with no location or no fix is noise — drop it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. 4d ago First seen · 72 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A c6c0608f4c6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review is a skill published in the GitHub repository mtthsnc/tempest (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 940 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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