review-spec

review-spec is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. It costs 19 tokens per session (2,013 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical-spec review tool that checks a design document for completeness, feasibility, risks, consistency with the codebase, and test planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review technical specifications and assess whether they are ready to guide implementation.
Why use it?
It can expose missing decisions or implementation problems before a specification guides development.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also runs codex exec. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the sd0x-dev-flow plugin — 98 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review technical specifications and assess whether they are ready…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/review-spec
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 sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill review-spec
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sd0x-dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,013 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 $0.00019 $0.02013
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01007
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00201

Measured yesterday against content hash bfc1ec0647b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-spec 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 yesterday.

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/review-spec/SKILL.md · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Spec

Trigger

  • Keywords: review spec, spec review, tech spec review, review-spec

When NOT to Use

  • Code review (use /codex-review-fast)
  • General document review (use /codex-review-doc)
  • Writing a new spec (use /tech-spec)

Relationship to /codex-review-doc

Both are doc-plane producers of the same gate, dispatched over the same Codex exec transport (@skills/codex-code-review/references/codex-transport.md) and emitting the same sentinel pair. They differ only in review depth and dimensions: /review-spec is the design-landing depth (completeness, feasibility, risk, code consistency, test strategy), /codex-review-doc is the general document depth. Loop mechanics, severity calibration and [NIT_DEFERRED] handling are shared — see @skills/doc-review/SKILL.md.

Why not an Agent dispatch. The gate verdict is behaviour-layer: it comes from the reviewer's report, and review-state.js note records it (@rules/auto-loop.md § Enforcement — nothing parses reviewer output; hooks are reminders). What makes a verdict usable is that a contract-aware reviewer produced it against this family's template and sentinels. A built-in agent dispatched ad hoc is not that reviewer and its output closes nothing. Dispatching Codex over the shared transport is what makes the verdict this skill's to note. See @rules/auto-loop.md § Review Dispatch.

Codex Dispatch

Bind every placeholder before writing prompt.md. The body below is body-only, so nothing evaluates an expression inside it: ${FILE_PATH} and ${PROJECT_ROOT} must carry real values by the time the file is written, or the cat ${FILE_PATH} instructions reach Codex as literal text and cannot be run.

You are a senior technical spec reviewer. Perform a Document Review of the technical specification below, at design-landing depth.

Document Info

  • Path: ${FILE_PATH}
  • Type: technical specification
  • Project root: ${PROJECT_ROOT}

⚠️ Important: You must independently read and research the project ⚠️

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. yesterday Changed · +11 lines bfc1ec0647b9
  2. 3d ago First seen · 182 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 4c6752004262

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (188 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,013 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 2026-09-03.

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