active-review

active-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paultyng/skill-issue. It costs 157 tokens per session (3,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A preparation guide for manually reviewing a GitHub pull request, with a short summary, a reading order for files, and suggested inline comments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing a pull request or branch diff, understanding its purpose, prioritising files, and preparing paste-ready comments with GitHub links when available.
Why use it?
It focuses review time on the changes most worth examining and provides comment drafts without posting anything on your behalf.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

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/paultyng/skill-issue/active-review
Any agent
npx skills add paultyng/skill-issue --skill active-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paultyng/skill-issue

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 157 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,338 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 5.1 $0.00157 $0.03338
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.01669
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00668
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00334

Measured 6d ago against content hash 06bd9307c3e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

active-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 6d 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/active-review/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Active Review

Prepare a human to review a PR. Reshape a /review-all pass into three terse blocks: PR summary, the files most worth eyeballing, and paste-ready inline comment drafts with GitHub deep-links. The skill never posts — the user posts manually.

Mirror to active-read: the agent loads the context, the human stays in the loop.

Workflow

1. Resolve target

Determine what's being reviewed and capture metadata.

  • Argument forms accepted: <PR number>, <PR URL>, <branch>, or nothing (default).
  • Default: current branch's PR (gh pr view --json number,url,headRefOid,baseRefName,title,body,headRepository,headRepositoryOwner). If no PR exists for the current branch, fall back to a branch-vs-base diff and skip the deep-link generation steps that require a PR.
  • Capture: pr_url, pr_number, org (from headRepositoryOwner.login), repo (from headRepository.name), head_sha, base_ref, title, body (PR description, may be empty).

If a <branch> argument is given but no PR exists, ask the user once whether to (a) open a draft PR first, or (b) proceed branch-only without deep-links. Do not infer.

2. Detect fresh review artifact

/review-all writes .reviews/<date>/SUMMARY.md with a metadata header that includes the full HEAD SHA. Reuse if fresh; otherwise re-run.

LATEST=$(ls -t .reviews/*/SUMMARY.md 2>/dev/null | head -1)
if [ -n "$LATEST" ] && grep -q "$head_sha" "$LATEST"; then
  echo "reusing review: $LATEST"
  SUMMARY="$LATEST"
else
  echo "running fresh /review-all (no artifact for $head_sha)"
  SUMMARY=""
fi

State the chosen path to the user in one line before proceeding: reusing review from <sha> or running fresh review.

3. Run /review-all if needed

When SUMMARY is empty, invoke /review-all against the resolved scope. Pass --focus "<area>" through if the user supplied it. Wait for the artifact, then set SUMMARY to the resulting .reviews/<date>/SUMMARY.md.

If /review-all errors or produces zero findings, say so explicitly and stop. Do not fabricate findings to fill the output.

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 6d ago First seen · 198 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 06bd9307c3e2

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active-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository paultyng/skill-issue (9 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 157 tokens to every session and 3,338 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.