standards-review

standards-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pantheon-org/tekhne. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to keeping solutions simple, necessary, and unsurprising through the KISS, YAGNI, and Principle of Least Astonishment principles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing features, choosing between implementations, or refactoring code that has become more complicated than needed.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary abstractions and moving parts, making code easier to read, debug, and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when designing features, choosing between implementations, or refactoring code that has become more complicated than needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pantheon-org/tekhne/standards-review
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 pantheon-org/tekhne --skill standards-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pantheon-org/tekhne

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,570 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 90
    Skill allows unbounded resource consumption (API calls, storage, compute). Without rate limits or quotas, a compromised or misbehaving agent can cause denial-of-service or cost overruns.
    Fix: Set explicit rate limits, timeouts, and resource quotas for API calls, file operations, and compute. Implement circuit breakers for runaway loops.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00060 $0.01570
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00157

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3a850ffb5086, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

standards-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 9d 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.

skills/software-engineering/standards-review/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Standards Review

Review a set of project standards through a structured, one-at-a-time interview. Each standard is presented individually with actionable options; the user picks one and moves on. Ends with a confirmed recap and a written report.

Mindset

Every standard should be clear, enforceable, and necessary. If it's not all three, it needs work.

The interview is a triage loop — for each standard, present it, get the user's action, and move on. Do not over-analyse a single standard or extend the interview beyond the user's stated scope.

When to Use

  • A team has codified standards (in RULES.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, or similar) and wants to audit them
  • Onboarding to a new project and reviewing whether existing standards still apply
  • Before a migration or refactor, checking which standards are still relevant
  • After a period of drift, to clean up stale or contradictory standards
  • The user explicitly asks for a "standards review" or to "audit our rules"

Prerequisites

  • The standards file must exist at a path the agent can read.
  • The file must have parseable structure (Markdown headings, numbered lists, or line-separated entries).

Workflow

1. Get the file path

Ask the user for the path to their standards file. Use a single question tool call with the file path as the only question.

Expected file formats, in priority order:

Format Parsing rule
Markdown (*.md) Each ## / ### / #### heading block is one standard. If no headings exist, each bullet list item (- / *) is one standard.
Plain text Each non-empty line is one standard.

Read the file with the Read tool. Parse it into individual standard entries.

If the file has no detectable structure, ask the user how standards are delimited before continuing.

2. Confirm scope

Tell the user how many standards were found and ask if they want to review all of them. If the count is 0, report that no standards were detected and offer to re-parse with a user-specified delimiter.

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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. 9d ago First seen · 148 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 3a850ffb5086

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standards-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository pantheon-org/tekhne (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,570 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 2026-09-03.

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