review-scope

review-scope is a skill for Claude Code from Ohswedd/praxis. It costs 85 tokens per session (643 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review-scope guide that defines a code change as the branch's commits since its base together with staged, unstaged, and untracked files. It helps auditors identify the complete set of work to review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before auditing a branch or code change. It helps establish which commits and files belong in the review.
Why use it?
It prevents reviews from looking only at the current working-tree difference and accidentally missing changes that were already committed or are untracked.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the praxis plugin — 15 skills, 8 commands, 13 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before auditing a branch or code change. It helps establish which commits and files belong in the review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ohswedd/praxis/review-scope
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 Ohswedd/praxis --skill review-scope
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ohswedd/praxis

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install praxis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 8 commands, 13 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 643 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 $0.00085 $0.00643
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00321
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00129
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash c056df1f0e15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-scope 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 8d 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/praxis/skills/review-scope/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scope the change before you judge it

The working tree is not the change. On a branch that has committed anything, git diff is empty, and a review scoped that way reads nothing, finds nothing, and returns PASS. That failure is silent: the verdict is indistinguishable from a genuine clean review, and it gets more likely the better the delivery discipline is, because one commit per subtask means most of a task's life is spent in exactly that state.

So a review has a base, and everything from that base to now is in scope: what the branch has committed, what is staged, what is merely edited, and the untracked files that appear in no diff at all.

Where your scope comes from

It is given to you. Whoever dispatched you resolves it first with scripts/scope.py and states it in your prompt: the base commit, the commits on the branch, and the files under review. Work from that.

You are a read-only auditor: your tools are Read, Grep and Glob, with no shell. You cannot run git and you cannot resolve a base yourself. That is deliberate, and it means the scope is a fact you are handed rather than one you discover.

When you were not given one

Say so, in the verdict, in words. Then:

  • Audit what you can reach with Read, Grep and Glob, and state exactly what that was: the files you actually examined.
  • Do not describe the result as clean. A review whose scope was narrower than the change is not a passing review, and the reader cannot tell the difference unless you tell them. Return FAIL if the scope gap makes your verdict meaningless, and PASS WITH NOTES naming the gap if it does not.
  • Never infer the change from what happens to be modified on disk. That is the working-tree assumption this whole rule exists to break.

State the base in your verdict

Every verdict names the base it was given and what it read. A verdict whose scope is unstated cannot be trusted by the next reader, and "I reviewed the working tree" on a branch with commits means the review did not happen.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 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. 8d ago First seen · 54 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A c056df1f0e15

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review-scope is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ohswedd/praxis (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 643 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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