Agent skill

Agentic Self Review

by carlos-algms in carlos-algms/agentic.nvim

Reviews a diff before commit: tests can fail, routed rules hold for changed files, unchanged siblings still hold.

MITAuto-check passedAgent Workflows

Install Agentic Self Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add carlos-algms/agentic.nvim --skill agentic-self-review -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install carlos-algms/agentic.nvim agentic-self-review --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/carlos-algms/agentic.nvim.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/agentic-self-review .claude/skills/agentic-self-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
agentic-self-review
GitHub stars
642
Token cost
~760 tokens
SKILL.md length
450 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Reviews a diff before commit: tests can fail, routed rules hold for changed files, unchanged siblings still hold.

  • Works in 10 steps: Tests can fail. For each new or changed… → Observable effect. Does an assertion… → Async. No assertion inside a… → …
  • Review a diff: yours
  • SKILL.md covers Checklist and Output
  • Calls make

What it does

Agentic Self Review is an agent skill from carlos-algms/agentic.nvim. Reviews a diff before commit: tests can fail, routed rules hold for changed files, unchanged siblings still hold. Runs no full gate. Use to review a diff: yours, a sub-agent's, or as plan-review loop reviewer.

Its SKILL.md is about 760 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows, covering Code review and Subagents. It works with Lua. The repository describes itself as: Agentic Chat Interface directly in Neovim with ACP providers from Claude-Code, Gemini, Codex, OpenCode, and Cursor-agent. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Review a diff: yours
  • As plan-review loop reviewer

Example prompts

  • “Use the agentic-self-review skill to review a diff before commit: tests can fail, routed rules hold for changed files, unchanged siblings still hold”
  • “/agentic-self-review”

Workflow steps

10 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Tests can fail. For each new or changed assertion, name the value that
  2. Observable effect. Does an assertion read a private field that both the
  3. Async. No assertion inside a vim.schedule, vim.defer_fn, timer, or
  4. Cleanup. Stubs reverted before assertions or in after_each; no
  5. Rule sweep. For each changed file, open every doc its router row names.
  6. New rules. If the diff adds or edits a rule in any AGENTS.md or skill,
  7. Siblings. For each fixed or guarded path, read the unchanged sibling
  8. Transitive context. For code that runs in a libuv callback, follow every
  9. Docs drift. For each symbol or behavior the diff changes, rg it across
  10. Rule gaps. Every gap found goes in the Rule gaps list of your final

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5ee5110. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • make

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Agentic Self Review loads about 760 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 57 tokens; SKILL.md has 450 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~57
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~760

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from carlos-algms/agentic.nvim at commit 5ee5110, republished under its MIT licence (© carlos-algms). 450 words, ~760 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/agentic-self-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
agentic-self-review
description
Reviews a diff before commit: tests can fail, routed rules hold for changed files, unchanged siblings still hold. Runs no full gate. Use to review a diff: yours, a sub-agent's, or as plan-review loop reviewer.

Self-review

One review per diff. If this diff already passed a review and no file changed since, do not review it again.

Run read-only commands only, plus make test-file FILE=<path> for the revert check in step 1. This review trusts the gates that already passed: never run make validate, make test, lint, or types.

Checklist

Create a task list with these items. Mark each completed only when it is done for every changed file.

  1. Tests can fail. For each new or changed assertion, name the value that would make it fail. None reachable -> the assertion is decoration. For a bug-fix test, undo the fix, run make test-file FILE=<path>, confirm red, restore the fix
  2. Observable effect. Does an assertion read a private field that both the correct and the broken branch write? Then it cannot fail. Assert the public effect instead
  3. Async. No assertion inside a vim.schedule, vim.defer_fn, timer, or coroutine callback. Store the value, assert in the it() body
  4. Cleanup. Stubs reverted before assertions or in after_each; no discarded pcall result; teardown compares handle sets, not counts
  5. Rule sweep. For each changed file, open every doc its router row names. Check every rule in those docs against the diff, not only the rules you remember. Include test mocks: they follow the same rules as production code
  6. New rules. If the diff adds or edits a rule in any AGENTS.md or skill, check that rule against every function in the same diff. A new runtime rule must cite a test
  7. Siblings. For each fixed or guarded path, read the unchanged sibling paths in the same function and its callers (rg the symbol). Does the change's premise make any unchanged line wrong? A pcall in a callee hides a violation: no error, no failing test. Do not treat a caught error as handled until you know what it hid
  8. Transitive context. For code that runs in a libuv callback, follow every call it makes. The fast-event ban applies to the whole call chain
  9. Docs drift. For each symbol or behavior the diff changes, rg it across docs/, doc/, README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, every AGENTS.md, and .agents/skills/. Re-read each hit against the code. One contract stated in several places drifts in one copy
  10. Rule gaps. Every gap found goes in the Rule gaps list of your final report: file, rule, what happened. The agent that receives the report appends it to rules-report.md. A gap in an area you own is fixed in the same change, per skill agentic-learn
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Output

Report findings as file:symbol - problem - fix. Fix them, or hand them back to the agent that owns the commit. Report "no findings" when there are none.

© carlos-algms, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/agentic-self-review of carlos-algms/agentic.nvim.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5ee5110

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Works with

Questions about Agentic Self Review

What does Agentic Self Review do?

Reviews a diff before commit: tests can fail, routed rules hold for changed files, unchanged siblings still hold. nvim. Reviews a diff before commit: tests can fail, routed rules hold for changed files, unchanged siblings still hold.

When should I use Agentic Self Review?

Agentic Self Review fits situations like: review a diff: yours; as plan-review loop reviewer.

How do I install Agentic Self Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add carlos-algms/agentic.nvim --skill agentic-self-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/agentic-self-review in carlos-algms/agentic.nvim) into .claude/skills/agentic-self-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Agentic Self Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add carlos-algms/agentic.nvim --skill agentic-self-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/agentic-self-review in carlos-algms/agentic.nvim) into .agents/skills/agentic-self-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Agentic Self Review in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add carlos-algms/agentic.nvim --skill agentic-self-review -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/agentic-self-review, .gemini/skills/agentic-self-review, .github/skills/agentic-self-review and .opencode/skills/agentic-self-review in your project.

What does Agentic Self Review need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Agentic Self Review needs the command-line tools its instructions call (make).

Does Agentic Self Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Agentic Self Review safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Agentic Self Review use?

Agentic Self Review is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Agentic Self Review use?

About 760 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Agentic Self Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Agentic Self Review: O2 Review Loop (openobserve/openobserve, 22k stars), Elves (aigorahub/elves, 221 stars), Subagent-Driven Development (HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard, 572 stars) and Review (juliepy/AI-Engineer-from-scrach, 441 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Agentic Self Review?

carlos-algms (a GitHub user) maintains it in carlos-algms/agentic.nvim, which has 642 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 10, 2026.

Source: carlos-algms/agentic.nvim on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.