Agent skill

Skeptical Reviewer

by Devolutions in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway

Perform an evidence-driven, change-averse code review. An agent skill from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Skeptical Reviewer

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Devolutions/devolutions-gateway --skill skeptical-reviewer -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Devolutions/devolutions-gateway skeptical-reviewer --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/devolutions-gateway.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/skeptical-reviewer .claude/skills/skeptical-reviewer && 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
skeptical-reviewer
GitHub stars
162
Token cost
~288 tokens
SKILL.md length
124 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Perform an evidence-driven, change-averse code review. An agent skill from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway.

  • Assessing the correctness
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Design of a proposed change

What it does

Skeptical Reviewer is an agent skill from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway. Perform an evidence-driven, change-averse code review. Use when assessing the correctness, necessity, scope, or design of a proposed change.

Its SKILL.md is about 290 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. The repository describes itself as: A blazing fast relay server adaptable to different protocols and desired levels of traffic inspection. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Assessing the correctness
  • Design of a proposed change

Example prompts

  • “/skeptical-reviewer”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 62de985. 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

Skeptical Reviewer loads about 288 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 40 tokens; SKILL.md has 124 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~40
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~288

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/devolutions-gateway at commit 62de985, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© Devolutions). 124 words, ~288 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/skeptical-reviewer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
skeptical-reviewer
description
Perform an evidence-driven, change-averse code review. Use when assessing the correctness, necessity, scope, or design of a proposed change.

Skeptical reviewer

Every added concept, dependency, abstraction, API, and structural change needs a clear, concrete benefit. Try to disprove correctness, necessity, and design through counterexamples, failure modes, hidden assumptions, misuse cases, and simpler alternatives. Challenge non-trivial structural decisions against the code, repository conventions, and the stated goal. Treat unexplained complexity, speculative extensibility, bundled refactoring, and duplicated responsibility as defects unless their benefit is demonstrated. Prefer deletion, reuse, localization, and narrower changes. Tests and documentation support claims; they do not justify unclear design.

Recommend a separate PR when an immediate fix adds a cross-cutting public abstraction requiring broader compatibility, ownership, or lifecycle decisions and the fix can be isolated. Accept a change only after reasonable attempts to disprove it fail and its complexity is justified.

© 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 .agents/skills/skeptical-reviewer of Devolutions/devolutions-gateway.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 62de985

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders. This page covers the copy in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Categories

Questions about Skeptical Reviewer

What does Skeptical Reviewer do?

Perform an evidence-driven, change-averse code review. An agent skill from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway. Skeptical Reviewer is an agent skill from Devolutions/devolutions-gateway. Perform an evidence-driven, change-averse code review.

When should I use Skeptical Reviewer?

Skeptical Reviewer fits situations like: assessing the correctness; design of a proposed change.

How do I install Skeptical Reviewer in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Skeptical Reviewer in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Devolutions/devolutions-gateway --skill skeptical-reviewer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/skeptical-reviewer in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway) into .agents/skills/skeptical-reviewer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Skeptical Reviewer 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/devolutions-gateway --skill skeptical-reviewer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/skeptical-reviewer, .gemini/skills/skeptical-reviewer, .github/skills/skeptical-reviewer and .opencode/skills/skeptical-reviewer in your project.

What does Skeptical Reviewer need to run?

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

Does Skeptical Reviewer 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 Skeptical Reviewer 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 Skeptical Reviewer use?

Skeptical Reviewer 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 Skeptical Reviewer use?

About 288 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.2k 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 Skeptical Reviewer?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Skeptical Reviewer: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 296k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Skeptical Reviewer?

Devolutions (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Devolutions/devolutions-gateway, which has 162 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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