Over-Engineering Review
DietrichGebert/ponytail
Reviews a diff only for unnecessary complexity and lists what to delete or shrink, one numbered line per finding with the location, the cut and its replacement.
Review a diff for what Honey would cut — over-engineering (speculative generality, hand-rolled stdlib, single-caller abstractions) and over-verbosity (dead code, narration, redundant comments).
Install Honey Review
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-review --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-review .claude/skills/honey-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "honey-review" agent skill from https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs/tree/main/skills/honey-review into .claude/skills/honey-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "honey-review", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs/tree/main/skills/honey-reviewType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-review --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-review .agents/skills/honey-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "honey-review" agent skill from https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs/tree/main/skills/honey-review into .agents/skills/honey-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "honey-review", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-review --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-review .cursor/skills/honey-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "honey-review" agent skill from https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs/tree/main/skills/honey-review into .cursor/skills/honey-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "honey-review", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git --path skills/honey-review--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-review --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-review .gemini/skills/honey-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "honey-review" agent skill from https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs/tree/main/skills/honey-review into .gemini/skills/honey-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "honey-review", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-reviewInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-review .github/skills/honey-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "honey-review" agent skill from https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs/tree/main/skills/honey-review into .github/skills/honey-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "honey-review", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Green-PT/honey-for-devs honey-review --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/honey-review .opencode/skills/honey-review && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "honey-review" agent skill from https://github.com/Green-PT/honey-for-devs/tree/main/skills/honey-review into .opencode/skills/honey-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "honey-review", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
honey-review- GitHub stars
- 313
- Token cost
- ~478 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 156 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 14
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Review a diff for what Honey would cut — over-engineering (speculative generality, hand-rolled stdlib, single-caller abstractions) and over-verbosity (dead code, narration, redundant comments).
- Asked to review
- SKILL.md covers Find, Never flag (the carve-out is… and Output — delete-list, one line…
- Calls git
- De-bloat a change
What it does
Honey Review is an agent skill from Green-PT/honey-for-devs. Review a diff for what Honey would cut — over-engineering (speculative generality, hand-rolled stdlib, single-caller abstractions) and over-verbosity (dead code, narration, redundant comments). Outputs a terse delete-list, one line per finding, with the line count each cut saves. Use when asked to review, trim, or de-bloat a change, or before opening a PR. Quality lever only — it finds waste, not correctness bugs.
Its SKILL.md is about 480 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 simplification, Code review and Text to speech and voice. The repository describes itself as: Honey (I Shrunk the AI) by GreenPT: a cross-tool coding skill that cuts AI coding-agent token usage and LLM API costs — write less code, less prose, and denser agent-to-agent… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Asked to review
- De-bloat a change
- Before opening a PR
Example prompts
- “/honey-review”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9169fc5. 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
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
Honey Review loads about 478 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 156 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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 Green-PT/honey-for-devs at commit 9169fc5, republished under its MIT licence (© Green-PT). 156 words, ~478 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/honey-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- honey-review
- description
- Review a diff for what Honey would cut — over-engineering (speculative generality, hand-rolled stdlib, single-caller abstractions) and over-verbosity (dead code, narration, redundant comments). Outputs a terse delete-list, one line per finding, with the line count each cut saves. Use when asked to review, trim, or de-bloat a change, or before opening a PR. Quality lever only — it finds waste, not correctness bugs.
- license
- MIT
Honey Review
Read the diff (git diff or the named range). Report only what to cut and why — the reverse of Honey's two write-levers.
Find
- Over-engineering (Lever 1) — code that needn't exist: speculative params, "might need it later" branches, single-caller abstractions, hand-rolled
itertools/pathlib/datetime, a new dependency for four lines, a reimplemented existing util. - Over-verbosity (Lever 2) — dead code, commented-out blocks, comments narrating what the code already says, redundant scaffolding.
Never flag (the carve-out is load-bearing)
Input validation, error handling, auth, secrets handling, accessibility basics, and visual/UX polish on user-facing deliverables are not bloat. A test or assert proving non-trivial logic is not bloat. Don't suggest cutting them.
Output — delete-list, one line per finding
path:line — cut <what>; <one-clause why> (−N lines)- Ordered by lines saved, deepest first.
- End with one total line:
Total: −N lines across M findings. - Nothing to cut → say so in one line. Don't manufacture findings.
- Terse but human-readable (this is for a person, not an agent — that's
hive-reviewer's job).
Example:
src/util.py:12 — cut hand-rolled flatten; stdlib itertools.chain.from_iterable does it (−9 lines)
src/api.js:40 — cut unused `opts` param; no caller passes it (−3 lines)
Total: −12 lines across 2 findings.© Green-PT, 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 skills/honey-review of Green-PT/honey-for-devs.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9169fc5
Compare with similar skills
Honey 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.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honey Review this skillGreen-PT/honey-for-devs | 313 | — | ~478 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Over-Engineering ReviewDietrichGebert/ponytail | 160k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Chisle ReviewJayPokale/Chisle | 640 | — | ~362 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Pragmatic Reviewheyitsnoah/claudesidian | 2.6k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Elegance-Focused Code Revieweric-tramel/moraine | 117 | — | ~473 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| SimplifySeifBenayed/cloclo | 114 | — | ~430 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT |
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Questions about Honey Review
What does Honey Review do?
Review a diff for what Honey would cut — over-engineering (speculative generality, hand-rolled stdlib, single-caller abstractions) and over-verbosity (dead code, narration, redundant comments). Honey Review is an agent skill from Green-PT/honey-for-devs. Review a diff for what Honey would cut — over-engineering (speculative generality, hand-rolled stdlib, single-caller abstractions) and over-verbosity (dead code, narration, redundant comments).
When should I use Honey Review?
Honey Review fits situations like: asked to review; de-bloat a change; before opening a PR.
How do I install Honey Review in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/honey-review in Green-PT/honey-for-devs) into .claude/skills/honey-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Honey Review in Codex?
Run `npx skills add Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/honey-review in Green-PT/honey-for-devs) into .agents/skills/honey-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Honey 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 Green-PT/honey-for-devs --skill honey-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/honey-review, .gemini/skills/honey-review, .github/skills/honey-review and .opencode/skills/honey-review in your project.
What does Honey Review need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Honey Review needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git).
Does Honey 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 Honey 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 Honey Review use?
Honey Review is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Honey Review use?
About 478 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k 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 Honey Review?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Honey Review: Over-Engineering Review (DietrichGebert/ponytail, 160k stars), Chisle Review (JayPokale/Chisle, 640 stars), Pragmatic Review (heyitsnoah/claudesidian, 2.6k stars) and Elegance-Focused Code Review (eric-tramel/moraine, 117 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Honey Review?
Green-PT (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Green-PT/honey-for-devs, which has 313 GitHub stars. The repository holds 14 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 7, 2026.
Source: Green-PT/honey-for-devs on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.