rove: Skill for Claude Code

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thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review is a skill for Claude Code from Sma1lboy/rove. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,485 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review, MIT.

A strict code-review guide focused on maintainability: how easy the code is to change, understand, and extend. It looks for oversized files, tangled conditions, weak abstractions, and broader structural problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for an unusually thorough review of a branch or codebase. It is intended for finding structural improvements, reducing spaghetti code, and improving modularity and readability.
Why use it?
It goes beyond finding small cleanup tasks and asks whether the code can be reorganised into a simpler, clearer design without changing its behaviour.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is Sma1lboy/rove's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on rove 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 rove configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Sma1lboy/rove. 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Sma1lboy/rove

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,485 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00054 $0.02485
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01242
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00497
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00248

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7faca08b51b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thermo-nuclear-code-quality-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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review/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.

Thermo-Nuclear Code Quality Review

Use this skill for an unusually strict review focused on implementation quality, maintainability, abstraction quality, and codebase health.

Above all, this skill should push the reviewer to be ambitious about code structure. Do not merely identify local cleanup opportunities. Actively search for "code judo" moves: restructurings that preserve behavior while making the implementation dramatically simpler, smaller, more direct, and more elegant.

Core Prompt

Start from this baseline:

Perform a deep code quality audit of the current branch's changes. Rethink how to structure / implement the changes to meaningfully improve code quality without impacting behavior. Work to improve abstractions, modularity, reduce Spaghetti code, improve succinctness and legibility. Be ambitious, if there is a clear path to improving the implementation that involves restructuring some of the codebase, go for it. Be extremely thorough and rigorous. Measure twice, cut once.

Non-Negotiable Additional Standards

Apply the baseline prompt above, plus these explicit review rules:

  1. Be ambitious about structural simplification.

    • Do not stop at "this could be a bit cleaner."
    • Look for opportunities to reframe the change so that whole branches, helpers, modes, conditionals, or layers disappear entirely.
    • Prefer the solution that makes the code feel inevitable in hindsight.
    • Assume there is often a "code judo" move available: a re-organization that uses the existing architecture more effectively and makes the change dramatically simpler and more elegant.
    • If you see a path to delete complexity rather than rearrange it, push hard for that path.
  2. Do not let a PR push a file from under 1k lines to over 1k lines without a very strong reason.

    • Treat this as a strong code-quality smell by default.
    • Prefer extracting helpers, subcomponents, modules, or local abstractions instead of letting a file sprawl past 1000 lines.
    • If the diff crosses that threshold, explicitly ask whether the code should be decomposed first.
    • Only waive this if there is a compelling structural reason and the resulting file is still clearly organized.

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. 10d ago First seen · 193 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 7faca08b51b6

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thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository Sma1lboy/rove (122 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,485 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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