review-github-pr

A GitHub pull-request review guide that summarizes code changes and design decisions. GitHub pull requests are proposed code changes reviewed before they are added to a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
For reviewing pull requests, summarizing differences between branches, and preparing code-review notes.
Why use it?
It gives a repeatable way to understand a pull request or branch without reading every change unaided.

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/nvidia/openshell/review-github-pr
Any agent
npx skills add NVIDIA/OpenShell --skill review-github-pr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,611 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 $0.00072 $0.01611
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00805
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00322
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00161

Measured 2d ago against content hash c5ec1e430b55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-github-pr 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/review-github-pr/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review GitHub Pull Request

Summarize a GitHub pull request diff, highlighting key design decisions and notable code snippets.

Prerequisites

  • The gh CLI must be authenticated (gh auth status)
  • You must be in a git repository with a GitHub remote

Step 1: Resolve the PR

The user will provide either a PR number (e.g., #123 or 123) or a branch name. Determine which input was given and resolve it to a PR.

If a PR number is provided

Strip any leading # and use the numeric ID directly. Proceed to Step 2.

If a branch name is provided

Look up the open PR whose head branch matches:

gh pr list --head "<branch>" --state open
  • If exactly one PR is found, extract its number and proceed to Step 2.
  • If multiple PRs are found, list them and ask the user which one to review.
  • If no PR is found, skip Step 2 (no PR description to fetch) and go directly to Step 3 using the local git diff fallback.

Step 2: Fetch PR Description

Retrieve the PR metadata:

gh pr view <number> --json title,body,state,headRefName,baseRefName,labels,author

Record the title, body, headRefName, and baseRefName for use in later steps.

Step 3: Generate the Diff

Primary: gh pr diff

Fetch the diff via the GitHub CLI:

gh pr diff <number>

If this succeeds, use this diff and proceed to Step 4.

Fallback: local git diff

If no PR exists (branch-only case) or the gh diff command fails, fall back to a local diff:

# Ensure both branches are available locally
git fetch origin <target-branch> <source-branch>

# Generate the diff
git diff origin/<target-branch>...origin/<source-branch>

If the user provided a branch name and no PR was found, diff against main:

git fetch origin main <branch>
git diff origin/main...origin/<branch>

Handling large diffs

If the diff output is very large (thousands of lines), use the Task tool to process it in chunks. Summarize each chunk independently, then merge the summaries. Do not skip or truncate parts of the diff — accuracy depends on reading all of it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 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. 2d ago First seen · 180 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A c5ec1e430b55

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-github-pr is a skill published in the GitHub repository NVIDIA/OpenShell (8,421 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,611 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 2026-08-30.

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