self-review

self-review is a skill for Claude Code from SteveVitali/agent-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (3,091 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A two-step review process for the changes on the current code branch. It first runs checks such as building, testing, and linting, then examines the design like a senior engineer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify a branch, review its implementation choices, and check whether the changes are ready to merge.
Why use it?
It catches routine errors and deeper design problems before a human review. This reduces wasted review time and helps find issues that automated checks miss.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the agent-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to verify a branch, review its implementation choices, and check whether the changes are ready to merge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/stevevitali/agent-skills/self-review
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 SteveVitali/agent-skills --skill self-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SteveVitali/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for self-review

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevevitali/agent-skills/self-review/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevevitali/agent-skills/self-review)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevevitali/agent-skills/self-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevevitali/agent-skills/self-review/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for self-review

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stevevitali/agent-skills/self-review"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stevevitali/agent-skills/self-review.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,091 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 57
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00029 $0.03091
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01545
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00618
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00309

Measured 11d ago against content hash be0cc797217f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

self-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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/verify.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/self-review/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Self-Review

A rigorous, two-pass review of all changes on the current branch. Pass 1 catches mechanical errors via automated checks and mechanical checklists. Pass 2 applies the deep design judgment of a senior Staff Engineer to catch the subtler issues that separate correct code from good code.

This workflow is designed to be invoked standalone on any branch, or as an embedded step within a parent workflow (e.g., implement-spec).


Pass 1: Mechanical Verification

Purpose: eliminate the rote mistakes that waste human reviewer time. Every check here is binary — pass or fail, no judgment required.

Step 1.1 — Run automated verification

Run the repo's build/test/lint verification for the changeset. Resolve what to run in this order — use the first that applies:

  1. Explicit command — the verify_cmd input or a $VERIFY_CMD environment variable.

  2. Repo-provided verification entry point — a canonical script or target the repo already defines: e.g. ./scripts/verify.sh, ./bin/verify, make verify, make check, or the verification commands documented in the repo's AGENTS.md / CONTRIBUTING.md. Prefer a changed-files-aware runner if the repo has one.

  3. The bundled inference helperscripts/verify.sh (shipped with this skill) detects the repo's toolchain(s) and runs their standard build/test/lint commands:

    scripts/verify.sh            # exit 0 = pass, 1 = failures, 2 = could not infer
    
  4. Manual derivation — if the helper exits 2 (nothing inferable, or a build system like Bazel that needs targeted invocation), derive the exact commands from the repo's docs and build files for the packages you changed, and run those. Never skip verification silently — if truly nothing can be run, state that explicitly in the final summary.

If any check fails, diagnose and fix the issue before proceeding. Re-run until all checks pass. Maximum 3 fix iterations — if still failing after 3 attempts, report the remaining failures and stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 291 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A be0cc797217f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

self-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository SteveVitali/agent-skills (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 3,091 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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