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Official agent skill

Code Review

by github in github/awesome-copilot

Review pull requests for repository fit, meaningful value, trustworthy provenance, differentiation, and maintainability in awesome-copilot.

OfficialMITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Code Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill code-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install github/awesome-copilot 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/github/awesome-copilot.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
40k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
751 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
417
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Review pull requests for repository fit, meaningful value, trustworthy provenance, differentiation, and maintainability in awesome-copilot.

  • Works in 6 steps: Correctness, security, and harmful… → Compliance with the repository's… → Repository fit and meaningful value for… → …
  • Tasks that involve Pull requests
  • SKILL.md covers Review priorities, Repository fit, AI-authored submissions and Marketing and self-promotion, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Code Review is an agent skill from github/awesome-copilot, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Review pull requests for repository fit, meaningful value, trustworthy provenance, differentiation, and maintainability in awesome-copilot.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 Pull requests and Code review. The repository describes itself as: Community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Pull requests
  • Tasks that involve Code review

Example prompts

  • “/code-review”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Correctness, security, and harmful behavior.
  2. Compliance with the repository's contribution requirements.
  3. Repository fit and meaningful value for GitHub Copilot users.
  4. Differentiation from existing resources and native model capabilities.
  5. Evidence that the contribution was tested or validated.
  6. Clarity, maintainability, and appropriate scope.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 82701c2. 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 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 38 tokens; SKILL.md has 751 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~38
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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 github/awesome-copilot at commit 82701c2, republished under its MIT licence (© github). 751 words, ~1,441 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/code-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
code-review
description
Review pull requests for repository fit, meaningful value, trustworthy provenance, differentiation, and maintainability in awesome-copilot.

Awesome Copilot Code Review

Use this skill when reviewing pull requests in this repository. Apply the deterministic checklists in .github/copilot-instructions.md first, then use this skill for the editorial and repository-fit judgments that cannot be reduced to schema validation.

Review priorities

Review in this order:

  1. Correctness, security, and harmful behavior.
  2. Compliance with the repository's contribution requirements.
  3. Repository fit and meaningful value for GitHub Copilot users.
  4. Differentiation from existing resources and native model capabilities.
  5. Evidence that the contribution was tested or validated.
  6. Clarity, maintainability, and appropriate scope.

Do not use raw file count as a quality metric. Large generated website changes, mechanical README updates, and other build outputs can be legitimate and should be evaluated according to their source change.

Repository fit

Confirm that a submission addresses a specific GitHub Copilot workflow, technology, domain constraint, or user problem. Flag contributions that:

  • provide generic advice that current models already handle well without meaningful uplift
  • restate an existing resource without a clear differentiator
  • use broad claims such as doing everything for every project
  • lack concrete instructions, constraints, examples, or expected outcomes
  • are primarily a wrapper or advertisement for the author's product

Paid or commercial services are not automatically unsuitable. Evaluate whether the contribution provides standalone user value and follows the repository's guidance for paid-service submissions.

AI-authored submissions

A PR title ending in 🤖🤖🤖 is an intentional AI-authorship disclosure from CONTRIBUTING.md. Do not report the marker itself as a defect.

For disclosed AI-authored submissions, verify that the PR still demonstrates:

  • a concrete need and repository fit
  • human validation or testing of the result
  • useful constraints rather than generic generated prose
  • an explanation of how it differs from existing resources

Review the submitted result, not assumptions about the tool that produced it.

Marketing and self-promotion

Flag marketing-heavy framing only when there is concrete evidence, such as:

  • repeated brand or product promotion unrelated to usage instructions
  • unsupported superlatives or sales claims
  • links or calls to action that dominate the resource
  • a resource whose primary purpose is acquiring users rather than helping them use GitHub Copilot

Describe the specific evidence and suggest how to refocus the contribution on the user problem. Do not infer promotional intent solely because an author is associated with a referenced project.

Duplication and differentiation

Search existing agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, prompts, and plugins when the new resource appears similar to existing content. Compare purpose and behavior, not only names.

Only report duplication when the overlap is substantial. Related resources can coexist when they target different frameworks, audiences, constraints, or stages of a workflow.

When configured MCP context is relevant, use the GitHub MCP server to inspect linked issues, prior submissions, or repository history. Cite the specific resource or pull request that supports the finding.

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Evidence and validation

Check that the PR explains how the contribution was tested or validated. The appropriate evidence depends on the resource:

  • agents, prompts, instructions, and skills should include a realistic usage scenario or describe how their output was evaluated
  • scripts and bundled assets should have focused tests or reproducible validation steps
  • workflows and hooks should demonstrate safe triggers, least-privilege permissions, constrained outputs, and expected event behavior
  • documentation updates should cite the authoritative feature or behavior they describe

Do not require executable tests for prose-only resources when a realistic manual evaluation is more appropriate.

Trusted and automated paths

GitHub and Microsoft external-plugin updates are generally trusted-source submissions. Still report concrete correctness, security, or manifest problems, but do not manufacture editorial concerns merely because the change is automated or externally sourced.

For automated documentation PRs, distinguish bad content from stale automation churn. Overlapping daily updates may indicate that the workflow should update an existing PR rather than that the documentation itself is low quality.

Review output

Leave comments only for specific, actionable findings introduced by the PR. Each finding should:

  • identify the affected file and line when possible
  • explain the concrete impact on users or maintainers
  • cite the repository rule, existing resource, or evidence behind the finding
  • recommend the smallest useful correction

Avoid vague comments such as "this feels AI-generated," "low quality," or "marketing." Explain the observable problem.

Do not recommend approval solely because automated checks pass. Human maintainers retain final judgment over editorial value and repository fit.

Review-policy changes

Copilot Code Review reads skills and instructions from the PR head branch. Therefore, treat changes to .github/skills/code-review/, .github/copilot-instructions.md, AGENTS.md, or other review-policy files as security-sensitive governance changes. Explicitly call out attempts to weaken, bypass, or remove review criteria, and require maintainer review of those changes.

© github, 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 .github/skills/code-review of github/awesome-copilot.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 82701c2

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GitHub Review Iterationprisma/orm48k—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0
Understand Diff AnalysisEgonex-AI/Understand-Anything86k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Code Review

What does Code Review do?

Review pull requests for repository fit, meaningful value, trustworthy provenance, differentiation, and maintainability in awesome-copilot. Code Review is an agent skill from github/awesome-copilot, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Review pull requests for repository fit, meaningful value, trustworthy provenance, differentiation, and maintainability in awesome-copilot.

When should I use Code Review?

Code Review fits situations like: tasks that involve Pull requests; tasks that involve Code review.

How do I install Code Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill code-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/code-review in github/awesome-copilot) 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 github/awesome-copilot --skill code-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.github/skills/code-review in github/awesome-copilot) 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 github/awesome-copilot --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 MIT 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 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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), WooCommerce Code Review (woocommerce/woocommerce, 11k stars), Open Code Review CLI (alibaba/open-code-review, 45k stars) and GitHub Review Iteration (prisma/orm, 48k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Code Review?

github (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in github/awesome-copilot, which has 39,830 GitHub stars. The repository holds 417 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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