sherlock-review

sherlock-review is a skill for Claude Code from summarybotng/summarybot-ng. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,689 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An evidence-based method for reviewing code changes and investigating whether a claimed fix or feature really works. It compares the claim with the code, tests, history, and observed behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify pull requests and bug fixes, investigate failures, or document a root-cause analysis.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of accepting incomplete fixes or trusting assumptions that the tests do not prove. It helps identify the actual cause of a bug.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to verify pull requests and bug fixes, investigate failures, or document a root-cause analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/summarybotng/summarybot-ng/sherlock-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 summarybotng/summarybot-ng --skill sherlock-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/summarybotng/summarybot-ng

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,689 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 $0.00051 $0.01689
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00844
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00169

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9fe10d662f7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sherlock-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 5d 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/sherlock-review/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sherlock Review

<default_to_action> When investigating code claims:

  1. OBSERVE: Gather all evidence (code, tests, history, behavior)
  2. DEDUCE: What does evidence actually show vs. what was claimed?
  3. ELIMINATE: Rule out what cannot be true
  4. CONCLUDE: Does evidence support the claim?
  5. DOCUMENT: Findings with proof, not assumptions

The 3-Step Investigation:

# 1. OBSERVE: Gather evidence
git diff <commit>
npm test -- --coverage

# 2. DEDUCE: Compare claim vs reality
# Does code match description?
# Do tests prove the fix/feature?

# 3. CONCLUDE: Verdict with evidence
# SUPPORTED / PARTIALLY SUPPORTED / NOT SUPPORTED

Holmesian Principles:

  • "Data! Data! Data!" - Collect before concluding
  • "Eliminate the impossible" - What cannot be true?
  • "You see, but do not observe" - Run code, don't just read
  • Trust only reproducible evidence </default_to_action>

Quick Reference Card

Evidence Collection Checklist

Category What to Check How
Claim PR description, commit messages Read thoroughly
Code Actual file changes git diff
Tests Coverage, assertions Run independently
Behavior Runtime output Execute locally
Timeline When things happened git log, git blame

Verdict Levels

Verdict Meaning
TRUE Evidence fully supports claim
PARTIALLY TRUE Claim accurate but incomplete
FALSE Evidence contradicts claim
? NONSENSICAL Claim doesn't apply to context

Investigation Template

## Sherlock Investigation: [Claim]

### The Claim
"[What PR/commit claims to do]"

### Evidence Examined
- Code changes: [files, lines]
- Tests added: [count, coverage]
- Behavior observed: [what actually happens]

### Deductive Analysis

**Claim**: [specific assertion]
**Evidence**: [what you found]
**Deduction**: [logical conclusion]
**Verdict**: ✓/⚠/✗

### Findings
- What works: [with evidence]
- What doesn't: [with evidence]
- What's missing: [gaps in implementation/testing]

### Recommendations
1. [Action based on findings]

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 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. 5d ago First seen · 259 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 9fe10d662f7f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sherlock-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository summarybotng/summarybot-ng (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,689 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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