code-review-patterns

A set of code-review guidelines that put working behavior first and code quality second, using evidence from specific files and lines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure reviews: verify that the software works, then assess correctness, maintainability, tests, and architectural choices.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers focus on real, actionable problems instead of subjective preferences or premature style criticism.

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/romiluz13/cc-teams/code-review-patterns
Any agent
npx skills add romiluz13/cc-teams --skill code-review-patterns
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/romiluz13/cc-teams

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,721 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 $0.00019 $0.03721
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01861
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00744
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00372

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2f8055a3aebf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review-patterns 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.

plugins/cc-teams/skills/code-review-patterns/SKILL.md · 460 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 460 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Review Patterns

Overview

Code reviews catch bugs before they ship. But reviewing code quality before functionality is backwards.

Core principle: First verify it works, THEN verify it's good.

Posture: Be adversarial and opinionated. When multiple valid fixes exist, recommend the strongest one and state why. Present a recommendation, not a menu.

Feedback Form

For every finding:

  • state what is wrong before stating the fix
  • state why it matters before discussing implementation preference
  • reference concrete file:line evidence
  • if the same pattern appears in multiple places, report it once with all affected locations
  • avoid personal framing like "you did X"; describe code behavior instead

Adversarial posture: Assume issues may exist until evidence proves otherwise. Your job is not to confirm cleanliness by default. Your job is to surface real problems with concrete evidence.

Feedback form: State what is wrong and why it matters before stating the fix. Reference file and line. If a pattern recurs in multiple locations, report it once with all affected locations.

Signal Quality Rule

Flag ONLY when certain. False positives erode trust and waste remediation cycles.

Flag Do NOT Flag
Will fail to compile/parse (syntax, type, import errors) Style preferences not in project guidelines
Logic error producing wrong results for all inputs Potential issues dependent on specific inputs/state
Clear guideline violation (quote the exact rule) Subjective improvements or nitpicks

Zero-Finding Gate

If a review pass produces zero findings:

  • verify you actually read the changed files, not just filenames or summaries
  • provide at least one specific positive assertion with file:line evidence
  • do not claim high-confidence cleanliness without evidence-backed positives
  • avoid verdict softeners like "looks fine", "probably safe", or "LGTM" without explanation

Quick Review Checklist (Reference Pattern)

Read the full file on GitHub · 460 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 · 460 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 2f8055a3aebf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review-patterns is a skill published in the GitHub repository romiluz13/cc-teams (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 3,721 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 2026-08-31.

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