review-gate

review-gate is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vanillagreencom/kendex. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,783 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A review gate that reports whether the exact pull-request version has been reviewed, using a status required by the repository’s branch rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure, adopt, tune, or debug the repository’s review-status gate and its settings.
Why use it?
It distinguishes review approval from other checks such as tests or continuous integration, so an unreviewed change is not treated as reviewed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vanillagreencom/kendex/review-gate
Any agent
npx skills add vanillagreencom/kendex --skill review-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vanillagreencom/kendex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 review-gate

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vanillagreencom/kendex/review-gate.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vanillagreencom/kendex/review-gate)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vanillagreencom/kendex/review-gate"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vanillagreencom/kendex/review-gate.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,783 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00026 $0.01783
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00892
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00357
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00178

Measured yesterday against content hash 62746e2eac49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

review-gate scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 23 executable files (scripts/lib/settings.sh, scripts/pr-watch.sh, scripts/review-predicate-selftest.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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- kendex:project-instructions:start -->
.agents/skills/review-gate/SKILL.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Project Instructions

Problems with a kendex-owned skill go through kendex report; check ownership in the file first.

Review Gate

The gate answers ONE question: has this exact PR head been reviewed? It posts that answer as a commit status the repo's branch rules require. It does not check CI, re-run anything, or reason about jobs.

Two greens do NOT mean a review happened. Under REVIEW_GATE_MODE = "off" the predicate evaluates no evidence and attests only that the repo disabled the gate; and merge-group statuses never read the mode, posting green as "merge-queue entry: post-approval by construction". Both: references/settings.md § REVIEW_GATE_MODE.

Decision table

Verdict Status Meaning
approved success Evidence exists for this head; no standing objection; no unresolved threads. Under REVIEW_GATE_MODE = "off" the predicate evaluates NO term. Success there means only "gate disabled", stated in the status description.
awaiting pending No review evidence for this head yet.
threads-open pending Evidence exists, but review threads are unresolved.
changes-requested failure A reviewer objects. Red means objection, never a build failure.
untracked-claim failure A disposition reply that claims tracking and names no issue fails the gate.
unreasoned-decline failure A decline whose reason strips to nothing against the label vocabulary fails the gate.
(exit 2, no verdict) unchanged A read failed or config is invalid. Take NO action; retry next pass.

Pending text names the head; which sources open the gate is references/settings.md § Reading the pending status. How the two failure verdicts parse a reply is DEVELOPMENT.md § Tracking-claim parsing and § Decline parsing; what to write instead is orch's references/finding-disposition.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Files

What ships with it

34 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. yesterday Changed · +9 lines scan A → C 62746e2eac49
  2. 2d ago Changed · -138 lines 1e13a98e097e
  3. 5d ago First seen · 287 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 2c24c8f88ad6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

review-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository vanillagreencom/kendex (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,783 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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