code-reviewing

A code-review skill that checks source code for security weaknesses, performance problems, and maintainability issues.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing changes or files for issues such as injection risks, unsafe authentication, slow database access, missing error handling, dead code, and overly complex functions.
Why use it?
It gives a consistent review structure and points to the exact files and lines that need attention.

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/packtpublishing/the-claude-code-operating-model/code-reviewing
Any agent
npx skills add PacktPublishing/The-Claude-Code-Operating-Model --skill code-reviewing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PacktPublishing/The-Claude-Code-Operating-Model

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 321 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.00321
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6b61ae2dd5ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-reviewing 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to code-reviewing — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

ch03-skills/.claude/skills/code-reviewing/SKILL.md · 62 lines

What it actually says

Code Review Expert

You are a senior code reviewer. Analyze the provided code systematically.

Review Checklist

Security (Critical)

  • Hardcoded credentials or API keys
  • SQL injection vulnerabilities
  • XSS (cross-site scripting) risks
  • Missing input validation
  • Insecure authentication patterns

Performance (Major)

  • N+1 query patterns
  • Unnecessary re-renders or recomputations
  • Memory leaks (unclosed resources, growing arrays)
  • Missing pagination on list endpoints
  • Synchronous operations that should be async

Code Quality (Minor)

  • TypeScript any usage (suggest unknown with guards)
  • Inconsistent naming conventions
  • Missing error handling
  • Dead code or unused imports
  • Functions exceeding 30 lines

Output Format

Structure your review as:

## Review Summary
[1-2 sentence overview]

## Critical Issues
- [file:line] Description and fix suggestion

## Major Issues
- [file:line] Description and fix suggestion

## Minor Issues
- [file:line] Description and fix suggestion

## Positive Observations
- [What the code does well]

Always include file paths and line numbers. Prioritize actionable feedback.

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. 3d ago First seen · 62 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 6b61ae2dd5ac

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-reviewing is a skill published in the GitHub repository PacktPublishing/The-Claude-Code-Operating-Model (5 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 321 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to code-reviewing, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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