Official agent skill

Adk Review

by google in google/adk-python

Reviews the uncommitted changes in an adk-python working tree and reports correctness, design, public-API stability, test, sample and documentation gaps as a prioritized findings report, fixing them…

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Install Adk Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add google/adk-python --skill adk-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install google/adk-python adk-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/google/adk-python.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/adk-review .claude/skills/adk-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
adk-review
GitHub stars
22k
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
808 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Reviews the uncommitted changes in an adk-python working tree and reports correctness, design, public-API stability, test, sample and documentation gaps as a prioritized findings report, fixing them…

  • Works in 7 steps: Correctness → Design → Style → …
  • The user asks to review local changes
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Checklist, Ground each finding and Report format
  • Calls git and pytest

What it does

Adk Review is an agent skill from google/adk-python, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Reviews the uncommitted changes in an adk-python working tree and reports correctness, design, public-API stability, test, sample and documentation gaps as a prioritized findings report, fixing them only when asked. Use when the user asks to review local changes, wants a self-review before opening a pull request, asks whether a change breaks the public API or needs tests, samples or docs, or asks what is wrong with the current diff. Required for changes to public APIs, core architecture (Runner, Workflow…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k 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, Commit messages and Refactoring. It works with Git and Python. The repository describes itself as: An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks to review local changes
  • Wants a self-review before opening a pull request
  • Asks whether a change breaks the public API
  • Asks what is wrong with the current diff

Example prompts

  • “Use the adk-review skill to review the uncommitted changes in an adk-python working tree and reports correctness, design, public-API stability…”
  • “/adk-review”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Correctness
  2. Design
  3. Style
  4. Architecture and unintended outcomes
  5. Documentation impact
  6. Samples
  7. Tests

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 097ae1e. 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:

    • git
    • pytest

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

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Adk Review loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 191 tokens; SKILL.md has 808 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~191
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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 google/adk-python at commit 097ae1e, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© google). 808 words, ~1,626 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/adk-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
adk-review
description
Reviews the uncommitted changes in an adk-python working tree and reports correctness, design, public-API stability, test, sample and documentation gaps as a prioritized findings report, fixing them only when asked. Use when the user asks to review local changes, wants a self-review before opening a pull request, asks whether a change breaks the public API or needs tests, samples or docs, or asks what is wrong with the current diff. Required for changes to public APIs, core architecture (Runner, Workflow, BaseNode), new features and major refactors. Don't use for a single style nit (use adk-style), for diagnosing a failing test or a misbehaving agent at runtime (use adk-debug), or for wording a commit message or PR description (use adk-git).

ADK Change Reviewer

Review the working-tree diff against the seven dimensions below, report what is wrong, and stop. Fix only what the user then asks you to fix.

Workflow

  1. git status and git diff (add --staged for staged work) to get the exact set of added, modified, and deleted files.
  2. Review the diff file by file against the checklist.
  3. Emit the report in the format below.
  4. Stop. Do not edit any file, and do not offer to. Wait for the user to ask.
  5. If the user asks for fixes, apply them, then re-run the affected tests (pytest tests/unittests/{path}) and pre-commit run --files {paths}.

Step 4 is the part that is easy to get wrong: an unrequested fix buries the findings the user asked for and mixes review output with new, unreviewed edits.

Checklist

1. Correctness
  • Types: no new mypy errors. CI diffs mypy output against the base branch and fails only on newly introduced errors, so a pre-existing error in a file you touched is not a blocker but a new one is.
  • Imports: no circular imports; absolute imports where the module already uses them.
  • Exceptions: no bare except:; catch a specific type and log with enough context to identify the caller.
  • Type discrimination: check an object's type before reading a type-specific attribute (for example confirm a node is an LlmAgent before inspecting mode), so an unexpected node type raises nothing.
  • Boundaries: None, empty collections, zero, and empty strings are handled by validation or a fallback default.
  • Preconditions: state invariants are checked before the core logic runs.
2. Design
  • Complexity: functions or classes that would be clearer split up.
  • Coupling: high cohesion, low coupling; no anti-patterns introduced.
  • Performance: redundant computation, repeated I/O in a loop, or allocations that scale with input where they need not.
  • Security: inputs validated, sensitive data not logged, no injection, resource exhaustion, or exposure of internal state.
3. Style

Cross-reference the diff against the adk-style skill rather than restating its rules here: visibility and _ prefixes, typing, Pydantic v2 patterns, lazy logging, imports, async, and file organization.

Confirm the changed files pass pre-commit run --files {paths}.

4. Architecture and unintended outcomes
  • Public API stability: does the change modify, remove, or narrow a public interface, class, method, argument list, or CLI surface under src/google/adk/? A breaking change needs a deprecation cycle first, because the package is released under Semantic Versioning and users pin minor versions.
  • Execution and resumption: changes to workflows, nodes, or state must stay compatible with the event execution lifecycle and with session resumption (human-in-the-loop steps and checkpoints). See the adk-architecture skill.
  • Concurrency and lifetime: no race conditions; plugins, exporters, and connections are closed on every path, including the error path.
  • Database and runtime DDL safety: runtime startup paths (e.g., DatabaseSessionService.prepare_tables() and _ensure_schema_indexes_exist()) must never execute destructive DDL such as DROP INDEX (which takes ACCESS EXCLUSIVE locks and breaks rolling deployments/rollbacks). Any additive runtime DDL must account for multi-container startup races (process-local asyncio.Lock does not prevent cross-container TOCTOU races on checkfirst=True) by wrapping creation in a SAVEPOINT (connection.begin_nested()) and tolerating concurrent creation.
  • Scope: a new public name, parameter or flag the fix did not need; a flag that keeps the buggy behavior as the default; a fix in a shared layer when one caller needed it; an existing test assertion edited to match the new behavior.
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5. Documentation impact
  • User-facing documentation lives in the separate adk-docs repository, so a user-visible change needs a PR there as well; note it in the report.
  • Guides under docs/guides/ may need an update when a public API or workflow pattern changes.
  • If the change alters a code unit's design contract, the adk-unit-design skill owns the design document for that unit.
6. Samples
  • Do existing samples under contributing/samples/ still run against the change?
  • Does a new capability warrant a new sample? Follow the adk-sample-creator conventions if so.
7. Tests
  • Every new or modified code path has a test under tests/unittests/.
  • A new test belongs in the existing test_{module}*.py file for its unit, not in a file named after the change, which fragments that unit's coverage.
  • Tests follow the rules in the adk-style testing reference: one behavior per test, behavior-named tests, no assertions on private attributes, minimal fixtures, arrange/act/assert structure.

Ground each finding

Before reporting a finding, resolve the symbol through base classes (Event extends LlmResponse). For a correctness finding, name the input that makes it fail; for any other finding, quote the rule or convention it breaks. A finding that is neither is a guess; leave it out.

Report format

Group findings by priority and give a file path and line for each. Do not report a dimension with nothing to say.

  • 🔴 Critical: bugs, type errors, race conditions, resource leaks, security issues.
  • 🟠 Design: complexity, readability, performance, architectural misalignment.
  • 🟡 Style: lint, formatting, non-lazy logging, typing mismatches.
  • 🔵 Docs, tests, samples: missing or stale coverage, guides, samples.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/adk-review of google/adk-python.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 097ae1e

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Questions about Adk Review

What does Adk Review do?

Reviews the uncommitted changes in an adk-python working tree and reports correctness, design, public-API stability, test, sample and documentation gaps as a prioritized findings report, fixing them…. Adk Review is an agent skill from google/adk-python, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Reviews the uncommitted changes in an adk-python working tree and reports correctness, design, public-API stability, test, sample and documentation gaps as a prioritized findings report, fixing them only when asked.

When should I use Adk Review?

Adk Review fits situations like: the user asks to review local changes; wants a self-review before opening a pull request; asks whether a change breaks the public API; asks what is wrong with the current diff.

How do I install Adk Review in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Adk Review in Codex?

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

Can I use Adk 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 google/adk-python --skill adk-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/adk-review, .gemini/skills/adk-review, .github/skills/adk-review and .opencode/skills/adk-review in your project.

What does Adk Review need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Adk Review needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git and pytest). Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Adk Review access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Adk 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 Adk Review use?

Adk 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 Adk Review use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.5k 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 Adk Review?

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Who maintains Adk Review?

google (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in google/adk-python, which has 21,736 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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