review-existing-solutions

review-existing-solutions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tomzx/agents. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for checking whether a survey of existing software solutions supports a justified build-or-adopt recommendation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing solution coverage, evaluation criteria, factual accuracy, due diligence, and the final recommendation.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of choosing to build or reuse a solution without enough research or fair comparison.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Auditing solution coverage, evaluation criteria, factual accuracy, due diligence, and the final recommendation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/review-existing-solutions
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill review-existing-solutions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,043 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 $0.00032 $0.01043
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00417
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00104

Measured 22d ago against content hash 7f4c2e4f84c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-existing-solutions 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 22d 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.

skills/review-existing-solutions/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Existing Solutions Survey

Audits an existing solutions survey and reports findings across five categories: coverage, evaluation rigor, accuracy, due diligence, and recommendation soundness.

Prerequisites

  • Apply the shared SDLC conventions in skills/sdlc/references/shared.md.
  • If no argument is provided, locate the feature directory under .sdlc/features/ whose frontmatter issue field references $ISSUE_NUMBER.
  • .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/existing-solutions.md, or a survey document provided in context or as a file path
  • .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/requirements.md (optional, improves coverage analysis)

Steps

  1. Read the survey from .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/existing-solutions.md if present, otherwise from context or as a file path.
  2. Cross-reference against the requirements document if available.
  3. Identify issues in each of the five categories below.
  4. Report findings. Omit any category that has no findings.
  5. Write the findings to .sdlc/features/N-<slug>/review-existing-solutions.md with frontmatter artifact: existing-solutions, verdict (approved if there are no blocking findings, changes-requested if the author must address findings, rejected for a fundamental flaw), and reviewed_at: <ISO date>, and the findings as the body, per skills/sdlc/references/shared.md. Record any unresolved open questions in the findings body. For any question that carries meaningful risk, also invoke /create-assumption to record it formally. For a chosen adopt-or-build direction with lasting consequences, invoke /create-decision.

Review Checklist

Coverage

  • Was the internal codebase searched before looking at external options?
  • Are the obvious open-source and commercial candidates present, or are well-known options missing?
  • Does the survey map candidates back to the functional and non-functional requirements?

Evaluation Rigor

  • Is each strong candidate evaluated on strengths, weaknesses, integration effort, cost, and risk?
  • Are gaps between a candidate and the requirements stated explicitly?
  • Are claims backed by the candidate's docs or source rather than assumption?

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 22d ago Changed · +1 lines 7f4c2e4f84c9
  2. 24d ago Changed d92432466a18
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 113 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 0bbf2b3e715c

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review-existing-solutions is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,043 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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