review-agent

review-agent is a skill for Codex from PracticalSwan/agent-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,077 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only code review procedure that examines a requested change and reports concrete defects the author would likely fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing uncommitted changes, commits, branch differences, or custom review targets, including their related tests and call sites.
Why use it?
It helps catch regressions and missed problems before a change is merged, without altering the files or repository.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit Reviewing uncommitted changes, commits, branch differences, or custom review targets, including their related tests and call sites.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/review-agent
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 PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill review-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-skills

Made for: 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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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,077 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.01077
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00539
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00108

Measured 4d ago against content hash 750550179f22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-agent 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 4d 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.

review-agent/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Agent

Inspect the requested target directly and return every finding that the author would likely fix. Do not modify files, create commits, push branches, post review comments, or delegate the review to another agent.

Review the change

  1. Read the applicable AGENTS.md instructions.
  2. Inspect the complete diff for the requested target and enough surrounding code to understand each changed path.
  3. Identify concrete regressions introduced by the change. Continue through the whole diff after finding the first issue.
  4. Check the relevant tests and call sites to confirm that each finding is real and actionable.

For a base-branch review, compare the changes that would actually merge rather than diffing directly against the branch tip. Resolve the comparison ref to the branch's upstream when that upstream exists and is ahead of the local branch; otherwise use the local branch. Run git merge-base HEAD <comparison-ref>, then inspect git diff <merge-base-sha>. If the local branch cannot be resolved, try its configured upstream explicitly before reporting that the target is unavailable.

Flag an issue only when all of these are true:

  • It affects correctness, security, performance, or maintainability in a meaningful way.
  • It is discrete and actionable.
  • It was introduced by the reviewed change.
  • The affected scenario or call path can be demonstrated from the code.
  • The author would probably fix it if they knew about it.

Do not flag speculative concerns, pre-existing problems, intentional behavior changes, or style nits that do not obscure the code.

Write the result

Present findings first, ordered by severity. Use one entry per issue in this form:

[P1] Imperative finding title — path/to/file.rs:line

Follow the title with one short paragraph explaining the affected scenario and why the behavior is wrong. Keep the cited range as small as possible and make sure it overlaps the reviewed diff.

Use these priorities:

  • P0: universal release blocker or critical failure.
  • P1: urgent defect that should be fixed next.
  • P2: ordinary defect that should be fixed.
  • P3: low-impact issue that is still worth fixing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 4d ago Changed 750550179f22
  2. 6d ago Changed 14f29f6af7e4
  3. 8d ago First seen · 108 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 4f9ac8a04322

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review-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (14 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,077 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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