receiving-code-review

Guidance for handling comments on a code review, the process where another engineer checks a proposed change before it is merged. It explains how to sort feedback, make grouped revisions, reply, and request another review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working through pull-request feedback, separating bugs from style suggestions or questions, responding to each comment, and deciding when to push back with evidence.
Why use it?
It prevents important comments from being missed and turns a long or ambiguous review into a manageable set of actions and decisions.

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/phuonghx/aim-cli/receiving-code-review
Any agent
npx skills add phuonghx/aim-cli --skill receiving-code-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/phuonghx/aim-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,133 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 $0.00083 $0.01133
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00113

Measured yesterday against content hash 9be341bee647, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

receiving-code-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 yesterday.

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.

aim/templates/aim-agents/skills/receiving-code-review/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Receiving Code Review

Feedback is data about the change, not a verdict on you. Triage it, act, reply.


The Loop

Read all comments → Triage → Act (grouped) → Reply to each → Re-request review
        ↑                                                          │
        └──────────────── repeat until approved ───────────────────┘

Read every comment before touching code — later comments often reframe earlier ones.


Triage Each Comment

Bucket Meaning Action
🔴 Must-fix Bug, security issue, broken contract, blocking concern Fix before merge
🟡 Should-fix Real improvement, maintainability, clarity Fix, or defer with a tracked follow-up
🟢 Nit Style/taste, non-blocking Apply if cheap; it's polite to
Question Reviewer is unsure, not (yet) asking for a change Answer; a change may or may not follow
💬 Discussion Design disagreement Resolve in thread before coding

When a bucket is ambiguous, ask the reviewer rather than guessing.


Respond to Every Comment

Leave no comment unanswered — silence reads as "ignored."

  • Made the change → reply Done (link the commit if not auto-linked).
  • Disagree → give a one-line rationale and propose an alternative.
  • Need clarification → ask a specific question, not "what do you mean?"
  • Out of scope → acknowledge and link the follow-up issue.

Sample Reply Patterns

✅ Agreeing:
   Good catch — fixed in a3f9c21. Added a test for the null case too.

🤔 Pushing back (with evidence, not ego):
   I left this synchronous on purpose: it runs once at startup and the async
   version complicated error handling (see benchmark in the thread). Open to
   changing if you still prefer async.

❓ Clarifying:
   Do you mean validate at the API boundary, or also in the service layer?
   I went with the boundary to keep the service pure.

📌 Deferring:
   Agreed this needs refactoring, but it's outside this PR's scope.
   Filed #482 and linked it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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. yesterday First seen · 136 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 9be341bee647

Subscribe to this mod's changes

receiving-code-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuonghx/aim-cli (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,133 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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