stage-chapters

A skill that creates review chapters for changes on the current Git branch and opens them in a browser. It prepares the branch difference, summarizes the changes, and launches the review interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing browser-based reviews of committed or uncommitted Git changes, including files that are staged, unstaged, or newly created.
Why use it?
It gives developers a structured way to inspect and discuss a branch before merging it.

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/reviewstage/stage-cli/stage-chapters
Any agent
npx skills add ReviewStage/stage-cli --skill stage-chapters
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ReviewStage/stage-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,405 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 $0.00022 $0.07405
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.03703
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01481
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00741

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6bc1913a96c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stage-chapters 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 2d 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.

skills/stage-chapters/SKILL.md · 540 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 540 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

stage-chapters

Generates a Stage chapter run for the current local git branch and opens it in a browser. Uses stagereview prep to compute the diff, then generates chapters and a prologue, and hands the result to stagereview show to launch the SPA.

Prerequisites

Run these checks before any other work. If either fails, stop with the error message — do not continue.

  1. stagereview is installed. Run which stagereview. If it exits non-zero, instruct the user:

    stagereview is not installed. Run:
    
        npm install -g stagereview
    
    Then retry /stage-chapters.
    

    Stop.

  2. The current directory is a git repo. Run git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree. If it does not print true, stop with:

    /stage-chapters must be run inside a git repository.
    

Step 1 — Run prep

PREP_FILE=$(stagereview prep)

stagereview prep auto-detects the base ref (main/master), computes the merge-base, generates the diff, filters out lockfiles/binaries, and formats hunks with line numbers for analysis. By default it auto-detects the diff scope: if uncommitted changes are present the diff includes staged, unstaged, and untracked files; otherwise it uses the committed branch diff. It writes a plain-text file and prints only the file path to stdout.

prep and show also accept positional git refs:

PREP_FILE=$(stagereview prep main)
PREP_FILE=$(stagereview prep main feature)
PREP_FILE=$(stagereview prep main..feature)
PREP_FILE=$(stagereview prep main...feature)

Use the same positional refs for show:

stagereview show "$AGENT_OUTPUT" main..feature

Both prep and show accept these optional flags:

  • --base <ref> — base ref to diff against (default: auto-detect main/master).
  • --compare <ref> — compare ref to diff against --base.
  • --ref <mode> — diff scope. One of:
    • work — staged + unstaged + untracked changes (full working tree vs merge-base).
    • staged — only staged changes (index vs HEAD).
    • unstaged — only unstaged changes (working tree vs index).
    • Omitted — auto-detect (equivalent to work when uncommitted changes exist, committed branch diff otherwise).
  • --pr <number-or-url> — review a GitHub pull request instead of the local branch. The base/head come from the PR itself, and its commits are fetched locally. Cannot be combined with positional refs, --base, --compare, or --ref. Requires gh to be installed and authenticated, and a github.com origin remote. Useful for reviewing a teammate's PR you don't have checked out.

Read the full file on GitHub · 540 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. 2d ago First seen · 540 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 6bc1913a96c5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stage-chapters is a skill published in the GitHub repository ReviewStage/stage-cli (267 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 7,405 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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