code-review-methodology

code-review-methodology is a skill for Claude Code from synaptiai/synapti-marketplace. It costs 107 tokens per session (1,297 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A two-stage method for reviewing code: first checking that it meets the requested behavior, then checking security, correctness, speed, and maintainability.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review code changes or pull requests and report findings by priority and file location.
Why use it?
It keeps reviewers from focusing on style when the implementation does not satisfy the requirements or has more serious defects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Part of the flow plugin — 33 skills, 20 commands, 10 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review code changes or pull requests and report findings by priority and file location.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace/code-review-methodology
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 synaptiai/synapti-marketplace --skill code-review-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/synaptiai/synapti-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 20 commands, 10 agents.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,297 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 $0.00107 $0.01297
Opus 5.5 $0.00043 $0.00519
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00130

Measured 19d ago against content hash d43fc47d440c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review-methodology 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 19d 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.

plugins/flow/skills/code-review-methodology/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Review Methodology

Contract

Iron law: verify it works before verifying it is good; never review quality on code that misses the acceptance criteria. Required by /flow:review, /flow:pr, code-reviewer, security-reviewer. Returns a P1/P2/P3 finding set (references/finding-schema.md), a requirements map, and APPROVE, COMMENT or REQUEST_CHANGES. Skips: Stage 2 when Stage 1 finds >3 unmet criteria; on the 3rd+ cycle, only new P1s.

Two-stage review

Stage 1, spec compliance. Give each acceptance criterion one status: Met (implemented and testable), Interpreted (ambiguous; one reading implemented), Partially Met, Not Addressed. If Stage 1 fails, stop.

Stage 2, code quality, in priority order: security, correctness, performance, maintainability. Never flag maintainability while security or correctness findings stand.

6-facet review

Stage 1 on the main thread; facets fan out in parallel:

Facet Focus Agent / Skill
Security OWASP top 10, secrets, authz, input validation security-reviewer
Quality Logic, edge cases code-reviewer
Conventions Commit, branch, PR format convention-checker
Tests Coverage, quality commands, adequacy test-runner
Error handling Unhandled errors, silent failures error-handler-inspector
Claim verification Self-review claims vs files holdout-validation

Tests facet rule: derive the expected behavior from the spec BEFORE reading the tests, then check each expected value and input against it; an expectation copied from the implementation confirms nothing (references/test-review-checklist.md).

Synthesis

  1. Deduplicate by file:line, keeping the highest priority
    • Optionally, a System One provider is asked whether two remaining findings in one file, whose reviewer lists differ, describe the same defect (review.dedup, off by default; references/system-one.md). In on mode a confident yes merges them under the finding with the highest priority, listing every location and reviewer. A security finding, a LOW finding paired with a HIGH or MEDIUM one, and two findings with the same reviewer list are never merged.
  2. Order P1, P2, P3 by file
  3. Count per priority; counts must match the Finding | Suggested Fix rows (references/finding-schema.md)

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 19d ago Changed · +1 lines d43fc47d440c
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines a367ebad2c3b
  3. 1mo ago Changed · -4 lines 3ae07630696e
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -109 lines · +17 tokens per session 50a0f75e1c4f
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 188 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 9396aa376e70

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code-review-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository synaptiai/synapti-marketplace (7 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 1,297 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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