guide

guide is a skill for Claude Code from NYTC69/review-loop. It costs 25 tokens per session (929 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to the Codex version of the review-loop workflow, which coordinates planning, implementation, and review. It uses shared configuration and session logs so Codex and Claude Code can work from the same state.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand the review-loop lifecycle, shared files, reviewer choices, and what Codex Stage 1 currently supports.
Why use it?
It explains how the workflow is organized and where its current boundaries are. Shared files reduce confusion when work moves between the two coding tools.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions Codex.

Part of the review-loop plugin — 6 skills, 12 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to understand the review-loop lifecycle, shared files, reviewer choices, and what Codex Stage 1 currently supports.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nytc69/review-loop/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 NYTC69/review-loop --skill guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NYTC69/review-loop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install review-loop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 12 agents.

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 929 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 $0.00025 $0.00929
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00372
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00186
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00093

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0d8a13d79fcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guide 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.

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/guide/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

review-loop Guide

What review-loop Does in Codex

A review-loop request goes to the Codex review-loop skill, which resolves the entry key in .review-loop/config.md and hands the work item to the Codex paired-session skill. That skill runs the coordinator through plan, implementation and review. With lifecycle on, finish, polish, docs and security follow, up to DONE. With lifecycle off, it stops after the gate; acceptance returns the uncommitted tree. It accepts only on your explicit acceptance. A request to review existing code hands off the same way as run --review-only, and an existing plan becomes the work item (PLAN drafts and reviews it again). entry: legacy, asking for "the legacy review-loop workflow" and resuming a legacy session are refused, and a failed check before the coordinator starts refuses instead of falling back. Runs are efficient by default (every sandbox, no permission-probe PASS required); --strict or "safety_mode": "strict" in the operator profile adds the probe gate. The legacy workflow was removed in v2.13.0 (routing) and v2.13.1 (the Codex plan and execute skills, the Codex Stage 1 workflow and its agents). Legacy session files under .review-loop/sessions/ are left on disk and never read. Details: docs/paired-session-migration.md.

A request to review a pull request ("review PR 123", a PR URL), a branch or ref goes to the Codex review-pr skill, which runs the paired-session report mode (entry: legacy and asking for the legacy review-pr are refused): it reviews it in a temporary clone with no tests unless you confirm one, writes review-report.md, and fixes, commits or posts nothing; posting is a separate request with a secret scan and a second confirmation of the full body. simplify is not available there (Claude Code: run /review-loop:code-quality-loop on the change (its POLISH-Q simplifier)).

Skills in Codex

  • review-loop, paired-session, review-pr
  • guide

Not on Codex:

  • code-quality-loop (ask review-loop to review an existing change instead: a review-only run with the quality writers on)
  • reorganize

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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. 7d ago Changed · +3 lines 0d8a13d79fcf
  2. 10d ago Changed · +2 lines 458b1659a788
  3. 15d ago Changed · -40 lines · +4 tokens per session 89015152ab05
  4. 16d ago Changed · +9 lines a31563710c55
  5. 17d ago Changed · +17 lines a6148001b834
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 28af984f086b
  7. 1mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A f7ca3330da84

Subscribe to this mod's changes

guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository NYTC69/review-loop (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 929 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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