independent-review

independent-review is a skill for Claude Code from ramboz/jig. It costs 96 tokens per session (4,695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review workflow that creates a standard prompt for a separate reviewer agent to check completed work against its specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an implementation slice or deviation log. It supports compliance reviews, craft-focused pull-request reviews, and several review stages.
Why use it?
It separates implementation from review, helping catch missed requirements without relying on the implementer’s own conversation or judgment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the jig plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after an implementation slice or deviation log. It supports compliance reviews, craft-focused pull-request reviews, and several review stages.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add ramboz/jig
Claude Code
/plugin install jig

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jig, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,695 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 $0.00096 $0.04695
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02348
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00939
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00470

Measured 11d ago against content hash ddd3ff5384c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

independent-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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (review.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

hosts/claude/skills/independent-review/SKILL.md · 379 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 379 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Working posture (ADR-0056). Adversarial review is a named, bounded operation. The skeptical, flaw-hunting register this skill builds belongs inside the review passes — they run in isolated reviewer subagents whose context is discarded. Outside a review, default to collaborative and solution-forward; don't carry the adversarial stance into ordinary conversation.

Spec 004 promoted this skill from stub to active. The prompt is constructed by review.py; Claude owns the Task invocation.

What this skill does

Constructs the standardized reviewer-subagent prompt and tells Claude when / how to spawn the Task. The skill has four modes, matching the review passes every slice may run:

  • Implementation review — after the implementer writes the deliverable to disk. The reviewer evaluates each acceptance criterion against the actual files; returns pass | fail | needs-changes. This is the compliance pass in spec-workflow's multi-pass flow.
  • Pr-review (craft pass) — slice 031-01. After the compliance pass returns, the orchestrator runs a craft-pass review that produces the four-bucket output (scope / blockers / nits / strengths) the jig:pr-review skill emits, wrapped in the same verdict envelope as the compliance pass. SPECIFIC ISSUES entries are tagged [blocker] / [nit] / [strength] so the workflow can decide what blocks the REVIEWED transition vs. what becomes a reconciliation-log entry.
  • Arch-review (architecture pass — on-demand) — slice 031-02. After the craft pass returns, the orchestrator queries the slice's arch_review: frontmatter flag via workflow.py arch-review-needed; when true, it runs an arch pass producing the four-bucket output (summary / strengths / concerns / open questions) the jig:arch-review skill emits, in the same verdict envelope. Slice authors set arch_review: true in the slice's frontmatter when the slice changes module boundaries, public contracts, or architecture-shaped concerns; the slice template at templates/docs/specs/slice-template.md ships the field commented out as a discoverability nudge.
  • Design-review (attest-only pass — on-demand) — slice 071-01 / ADR-0022. After the craft (+ arch) passes, the orchestrator queries the slice's design_review: flag via workflow.py design-review-needed; when true, it runs an attest-only pass: the read-only reviewer attests an external, non-deterministic design-fidelity eval's frozen verdict (e.g. servo's .servo/design-eval/ composite ≥ its own threshold, non-stale, env_error ≠ pass) and records pass/fail — it never re-runs or re-derives the score (servo runs/scores, jig attests). Gates REVIEWED like arch. Authors set design_review: true when the slice ships UI gated by an external design-fidelity eval — and the slice body must point at where the eval evidence lives (the frozen config + threshold and the results ledger), since the reviewer can only attest a verdict it can locate; with no pointer it has nothing to read and records a fail.
  • Reconciliation review — after the deviation log is written. The reviewer verifies the doc changes match reality; does NOT re-review the ACs.

review.py builds the prompt text; agents/reviewer.md defines the agent's tool restrictions and persistent system rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 379 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. 11d ago First seen · 379 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A ddd3ff5384c5

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independent-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ramboz/jig (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 4,695 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.