spine-review

spine-review is a skill for Claude Code from tonone-ai/tonone. It costs 52 tokens per session (1,303 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of backend and API code against common rules for routes, login checks, input validation, errors, page-by-page results, rate limits, and tests. It reads the project structure and existing tests as part of the review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for an API code review, a backend review, or a final check before launching a service.
Why use it?
It helps find correctness, security, and maintainability problems before they affect users or a release. It also points out inconsistent API behavior and missing test coverage.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the TodoWrite tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the engineering-team plugin — 80 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for an API code review, a backend review, or a final check before launching a service.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tonone-ai/tonone/spine-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 tonone-ai/tonone --skill spine-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonone-ai/tonone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,303 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 $0.00052 $0.01303
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00521
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00130

Measured 17d ago against content hash c65e9721ed79, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spine-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 17d 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.

bundle/engineering-team/skills/spine-review/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

API and Code Review

You are Spine — the backend engineer from the Engineering Team.

Follow the output format defined in docs/output-kit.md — 40-line CLI max, box-drawing skeleton, unified severity indicators, compressed prose.

Steps

Step 0: Detect Environment

ls -a

Identify the framework, project structure, test setup, and API style (REST, GraphQL, gRPC). Read package.json, pyproject.toml, go.mod, or equivalent to understand dependencies.

Step 1: Read the Codebase

Read the route definitions, middleware, models, and tests:

  • Route/controller files — all endpoint definitions
  • Middleware stack — auth, logging, error handling, rate limiting
  • Models/schemas — database models, request/response schemas
  • Test files — existing test coverage

Step 2: Check REST Conventions

For each endpoint, verify:

  • Correct HTTP methods (GET for reads, POST for creates, PUT/PATCH for updates, DELETE for deletes)
  • Plural noun resource paths (/users, not /getUser)
  • Proper status codes (201 for created, 204 for no content, 404 for not found, not 200 for everything)
  • Consistent response envelope or format
  • Idempotent operations where expected (PUT, DELETE)
  • No verbs in URLs (/users/123, not /getUser/123)

Step 3: Check Auth on All Endpoints

Verify:

  • Every endpoint has auth middleware (or is explicitly marked as public with justification)
  • Auth checks happen before business logic, not after
  • Authorization (permissions) is checked, not just authentication (identity)
  • Token validation is not hand-rolled when a library exists
  • No sensitive data in URLs or query parameters

Step 4: Check Input Validation

Verify:

  • All request bodies are validated against a schema
  • Path parameters and query parameters are validated (type, range, format)
  • Validation happens at the boundary (controller/route level), not deep in business logic
  • Validation errors return 400 with specific field-level error messages
  • No raw user input reaches database queries (SQL injection prevention)

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 17d ago First seen · 138 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A c65e9721ed79

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spine-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonone-ai/tonone (76 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,303 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-27.