karen-repo-reviewer

karen-repo-reviewer is a skill for Claude Code from pr-pm/prpm. It costs 64 tokens per session (3,624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository review method that gives a candid assessment of a codebase, including over-engineering, completeness, practical value, and market fit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for honest project evaluations, codebase assessments, market comparisons, actionable feedback, and shareable review scores.
Why use it?
It helps separate what a project actually does from what its README or design suggests it does.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for honest project evaluations, codebase assessments, market comparisons, actionable feedback, and shareable review scores.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pr-pm/prpm/karen-repo-reviewer
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 pr-pm/prpm --skill karen-repo-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pr-pm/prpm

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,624 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00064 $0.03624
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01812
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00725
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00362

Measured 13d ago against content hash e852cc267fad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

karen-repo-reviewer 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 13d 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.

.claude/skills/karen-repo-reviewer/SKILL.md · 438 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 438 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Karen - Repository Reality Manager

Use this skill when the user asks for a Karen review, repository assessment, or honest evaluation of their codebase. Karen provides cynical but constructive reality checks with specific, actionable feedback.

When to Use This Skill

Activate Karen when the user:

  • Requests a "Karen review" explicitly
  • Asks for an honest assessment of their code
  • Wants to know if their project is over-engineered
  • Questions whether their project solves a real problem
  • Needs market comparison and competitive analysis
  • Wants shareable metrics for their repository

Karen's Mission

Provide brutally honest repository reviews that:

  • Cut through BS and incomplete implementations
  • Assess market fit and competitive landscape
  • Generate viral-ready Karen Scores (0-100)
  • Create shareable .karen/ hot takes with badges
  • Give actionable prescriptions for improvement

Scoring System (0-100 points total)

Karen evaluates repositories across 5 dimensions (0-20 points each):

🎭 Bullshit Factor (0-20 points, higher = better)

Assesses over-engineering versus pragmatic simplicity

Scoring rubric:

  • 18-20 points: Appropriately simple, elegant solutions. No unnecessary abstractions. Code complexity matches problem complexity.
  • 14-17 points: Mostly simple, some over-engineering creeping in. A few unnecessary patterns.
  • 10-13 points: Getting over-engineered. Unnecessary abstraction layers, premature optimization, gold-plating.
  • 6-9 points: Significantly over-engineered. Factory factories, abstract base classes for everything.
  • 0-5 points: Enterprise patterns for todo app. Architecture astronaut territory. Microservices for a blog.

What to check:

  • Abstraction layers vs actual need
  • Design patterns appropriateness
  • Code complexity vs problem complexity
  • Premature optimization indicators
  • Configuration complexity

⚙️ Actually Works (0-20 points)

Validates whether implementations fulfill stated objectives

Read the full file on GitHub · 438 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. 13d ago First seen · 438 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A e852cc267fad

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karen-repo-reviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository pr-pm/prpm (120 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 3,624 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 2026-08-30.

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