review-staged

review-staged is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from photostructure/coding-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for checking the changes currently staged in Git, the version-control system used to track code, and then preparing a commit message in a common format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review `git diff --cached`, report problems in staged files, suggest safer commit grouping, and prepare a Conventional Commit.
Why use it?
It helps find verified bugs or improvements before changes are recorded in the project history. It also helps decide whether the changes should be split into separate commits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the coding plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent shipped together

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/photostructure/coding-skills/review-staged
Any agent
npx skills add photostructure/coding-skills --skill review-staged
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/photostructure/coding-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install coding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent.

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.

agentmods badge for review-staged

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/review-staged.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/review-staged)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/review-staged"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/photostructure/coding-skills/review-staged.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 709 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 $0.00055 $0.00709
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 5d ago against content hash c585928e6137, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-staged 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 5d 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/coding/skills/review-staged/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Git Staged Changes

Review the staged diff (git diff --cached) for potential issues and improvements, then prepare the commit. When the user supplies a proposed commit message, use it as context for the intended change, not as a correctness requirement.

Leaf-mode guard

If the task identifies your role as leaf-reviewer or sets delegation-budget: 0, read and follow ../review/references/single-pass.md, complete one review yourself, return the report to the caller, and stop before the commit flow below.

Run the review

Size the scope before reading it: git diff --cached --stat. Review all staged content as supplied. The size or coherence of a proposed commit does not affect the review verdict.

With the staged diff as the scope, read and follow ../review/references/single-pass.md, then ../review/references/orchestration.md. The latter's user-facing response rules replace the former's leaf return behavior.

After the findings, use the shared Commit notes section for optional message or grouping advice. If a split would improve reviewability or make later reverts safer, identify the files or hunks in each independently committable batch and give a complete Conventional Commit message for every batch. State the specific reason for the split; size alone is not enough. These notes never receive a priority and never change the verdict. If they are the only concerns, return Verdict: LAND and No issues found.

Post-review commit flow

If the verdict is DISCARD, explain why the change should not land and stop. Do not prepare a commit message for a change the review recommends abandoning.

Otherwise, do not commit during the review:

  1. List the files (and line ranges, if partial) that are staged for commit.
  2. Present the recommended commit message, or the batches and messages from the Commit notes section. When no note was warranted, confirm the supplied message or draft one. Emphasize motivation or consequence rather than restating the diff. Ask the user to review or edit the proposal.
  3. Only commit after explicit user approval.

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 68 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A c585928e6137

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-staged is a skill published in the GitHub repository photostructure/coding-skills (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 709 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 2026-08-31.

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