Agent skill

Code Review

by Devolutions in Devolutions/IronRDP

Review IronRDP pull requests and diffs using focused protocol, compression, prose, and skeptical passes.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Code Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Devolutions/IronRDP --skill code-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Devolutions/IronRDP code-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/Devolutions/IronRDP.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.github/skills/code-review .claude/skills/code-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
code-review
GitHub stars
3.2k
Token cost
~539 tokens
SKILL.md length
267 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Review IronRDP pull requests and diffs using focused protocol, compression, prose, and skeptical passes.

  • Copilot code review is requested
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • A proposed change needs review

What it does

Code Review is an agent skill from Devolutions/IronRDP. Review IronRDP pull requests and diffs using focused protocol, compression, prose, and skeptical passes. Use whenever Copilot code review is requested or a proposed change needs review.

Its SKILL.md is about 540 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 Development, covering Code review and Pull requests. The repository describes itself as: Rust implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Copilot code review is requested
  • A proposed change needs review

Example prompts

  • “/code-review”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0e9dc1f. 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

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    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

Code Review loads about 539 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 49 tokens; SKILL.md has 267 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~49
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~539

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 Devolutions/IronRDP at commit 0e9dc1f, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Devolutions). 267 words, ~539 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/code-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
code-review
description
Review IronRDP pull requests and diffs using focused protocol, compression, prose, and skeptical passes. Use whenever Copilot code review is requested or a proposed change needs review.

Code review

Inspect the diff, its stated goal, and repository guidance before selecting reviewers:

  • Run protocol-reviewer only when the change may affect protocol behavior, wire data, negotiation, state transitions, security, codecs, virtual channels, or protocol-visible errors.
  • Run code-compressor for the changed code.
  • Run docs-compressor when documentation, rustdoc, explanatory comments, or instructional prose changes.
  • Run prose-verifier when hand-maintained prose changes in a format where source line breaks are stylistic.
  • Run skeptical-reviewer last for every diff.

Prefer one rubber-duck sub-agent per applicable skill. Run the protocol, compression, and prose reviews in parallel. Give every agent the change goal, review scope, base and head references, relevant repository guidance, and an instruction to invoke its named skill, inspect the diff itself, make no edits, and return only evidence-backed findings. If sub-agents or skill invocation are unavailable, apply the same skills directly and keep the ordering.

Before the skeptical pass, normalize the initial results. Drop claims that lack a concrete location or mechanism, merge findings with the same root cause, and retain disagreements instead of resolving them by vote. Give the skeptical reviewer the diff plus the retained findings and ask it to independently review the change, verify or reject each supplied concern, and identify material issues the focused passes missed.

Evaluate the final evidence yourself. Report correctness and protocol findings first, ordered by severity, then optional compression suggestions. Each retained item needs a location, concrete impact, and actionable correction or simplification. Merge duplicates across reviewers and do not inflate a maintainability preference into a defect. Briefly name skipped reviewers and why; if nothing material remains, say that no findings were identified.

© Devolutions, Apache-2.0. 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 .github/skills/code-review of Devolutions/IronRDP.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0e9dc1f

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Code Review next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Open Code Review CLIalibaba/open-code-review44k—~3.1kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
GitHub Review Iterationprisma/orm48k—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Categories

Questions about Code Review

What does Code Review do?

Review IronRDP pull requests and diffs using focused protocol, compression, prose, and skeptical passes. Code Review is an agent skill from Devolutions/IronRDP. Review IronRDP pull requests and diffs using focused protocol, compression, prose, and skeptical passes.

When should I use Code Review?

Code Review fits situations like: copilot code review is requested; A proposed change needs review.

How do I install Code Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Devolutions/IronRDP --skill code-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/code-review in Devolutions/IronRDP) into .claude/skills/code-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Code Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Devolutions/IronRDP --skill code-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/code-review in Devolutions/IronRDP) into .agents/skills/code-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Code 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 Devolutions/IronRDP --skill code-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/code-review, .gemini/skills/code-review, .github/skills/code-review and .opencode/skills/code-review in your project.

What does Code Review need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Code Review is instructions for the agent only.

Does Code 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 Code 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 Code Review use?

Code Review is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Code Review use?

About 539 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.2k 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 Code Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Code Review: PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars), Understand Diff Analysis (Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, 86k stars), WooCommerce Code Review (woocommerce/woocommerce, 11k stars) and Open Code Review CLI (alibaba/open-code-review, 44k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Code Review?

Devolutions (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Devolutions/IronRDP, which has 3,213 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: Devolutions/IronRDP on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.