vigiles: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/review-docs/SKILL.md

review-docs is a skill for Claude Code from zernie/vigiles. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation review process that asks several kinds of readers to assess a README or documentation page.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review documentation from the viewpoints of a newcomer, experienced user, add-on author, senior engineer, and non-technical decision-maker.
Why use it?
It finds unclear explanations and missing information that the author may overlook because they already know the project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions AGENTS.md.

This is zernie/vigiles's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vigiles itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vigiles configures →

Part of the vigiles plugin — 26 skills, 4 hooks, 2 plugins shipped together

not rated 15repo 3d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: passSkillSpector: pass 113 tokens original MIT
Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to zernie/vigiles. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zernie/vigiles/main/.claude/skills/review-docs/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zernie/vigiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vigiles, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 hooks, 2 plugins.

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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.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,493 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 20 Jul 2026
  • Snyk pass 20 Jul 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00113 $0.01493
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00746
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00149

Measured 7d ago against content hash 26f81f436a34, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-docs 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 7d 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/review-docs/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review a front-door doc (default README.md; honor a path the user names) the way real readers would — not the way the author does. The author knows what every line means; a first-time reader does not. The job is to surface where a specific audience gets confused, under-served, or bounces, score it, and propose concrete fixes.

The method is fan-out: spawn one subagent PER PERSONA, all in parallel, each doing a cold read as that reader. Different readers catch different things; running them concurrently is faster and keeps each read uncontaminated by the others.

How to run it

1. Read the target doc yourself first

Read the doc in full and skim the docs it links to (so "promises depth the linked doc doesn't deliver" is checkable). You need this to judge the personas' findings and to apply fixes later.

2. Fan out one subagent per persona — in parallel

Spawn the personas below as subagents in a single message (multiple Agent/Task calls at once) so they run concurrently. Use a fast, cheap model (Sonnet or Haiku) — this is a reading/judgment task, not heavy synthesis — and say so in one line when you launch them.

Give EACH subagent the same rubric, only the persona changes:

You are <PERSONA>. Read <path> (ignore any HTML comment block at the top — that's internal authoring notes, not user-facing copy). Do a COLD read as this reader: adopt their goals, vocabulary, and patience. Be a harsh grader — most READMEs are a 3; 5/5 means you'd genuinely act on it and it's crisp end to end. Return ONLY:

  1. SCORE: x/5
  2. 30-second test: after the first screen only, in one sentence, what do you think this tool does — and is that right/wrong/fuzzy?
  3. Top 3 concrete problems — each quotes the exact line/phrase and gives a specific suggested rewrite (confusing jargon, sentences carrying too many ideas, anything that doesn't sell, formatting that hurts scanning, hype that costs trust).
  4. Jargon check: every word you had to stop on (harness, spec, eval, subagent, rings, recall/precision…) — is it defined in context or left guessing?
  5. What works — keep these, so revisions don't lose them.
  6. The one change that would move the score most. Quote exact text. Be useful, not polite.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. 7d ago First seen · 116 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 26f81f436a34

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review-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository zernie/vigiles (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,493 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.