RTLDesignSherpa: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/review-rounds/SKILL.md

review-rounds is a skill for Claude Code from sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa. It costs 79 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for sending technical documents through repeated external review rounds, then sorting findings and checking fixes. RTL means the hardware description code used to build a digital circuit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare review bundles, dispatch review rounds, triage findings, verify fixes with clean rebuilds, and test that a defect-catching test really fails on broken RTL.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish documentation mistakes from actual hardware defects and prevents trusting review verdicts, commit messages, or stale builds without evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on RTLDesignSherpa itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything RTLDesignSherpa configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa/main/.claude/skills/review-rounds/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 610 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00079 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00061

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2c1ac564096b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-rounds 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.

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.

.claude/skills/review-rounds/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

review-rounds

READ FIRST: vault/handbook/INDEX.md (the handbook is the repo's memory; this skill is the signpost). Canonical: vault/handbook/authoring/kimi-review-rounds.md - the seven rules, both round modes, and the endpoint config.

Four that bite hardest when triaging findings:

  • The second-model adjudication pass is ADVISORY. A REFUTED verdict never drops a finding on its own -- 4 of the ~7 it has issued were wrong, against a reviewer FP rate of 2 in 72. Measure the extractor first (verify_findings.py --dry-run prints the located-quote share); a blind verdict is not evidence in either direction.
  • A finding that reads like a doc nit can be a real RTL defect (and vice versa). Read the whole finding, not the headline; triage doc-fix vs RTL-fix per finding.
  • Integration status is MEASURED against the tree, never inferred from commit history. A "reconcile docs with the RTL" commit is not evidence a round was applied - one landed six hours before a round that then found 70 confirmed defects.
  • Verify a fix with a CLEAN REBUILD and mutation-check the test: a stale sim_build passes against the old RTL, and a test whose stimulus cannot expose the bug passes against the broken RTL. Revert, confirm RED, restore.

Voice pass: [[humanization-voice]]. Off-workstation runs: [[cloud-sandbox]].

Scripts: bin/build_review_bundle.py (rebuild ALL units, always) then bin/review/run_batch.py {qc|humanize} (serial, never overwrites a round).

Direct-mode runbook (off the litellm proxy) is in the handbook note: model is ALWAYS kimi-k3; the Moonshot key loads inline from an out-of-repo secrets store and NEVER enters the repo (not even its path); bundle + results live outside the working tree. The bundle misses index/readme/overview (only what book*_index links) -- add an _meta unit for a send-ALL-md pass.

The handbook root is vault/handbook/INDEX.md - design/, dv/, fpga/, authoring/ areas, atomic notes, wikilinked. When you learn a durable lesson in this domain, ADD IT TO THE HANDBOOK NOTE, not to this skill.

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 · 43 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 2c1ac564096b

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review-rounds is a skill published in the GitHub repository sean-galloway/RTLDesignSherpa (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.