A skill your agent uses when reviewing or refactoring code and wanting a structured lens beyond SOLID — applies Daniel Terhorst-North's CUPID properties to surface improvement opportunities in any…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Cupid Code Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cupid-code-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers cupid-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/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cupid-code-review .claude/skills/cupid-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
cupid-code-review
GitHub stars
114
Token cost
~2.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,318 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
42
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when reviewing or refactoring code and wanting a structured lens beyond SOLID — applies Daniel Terhorst-North's CUPID properties to surface improvement opportunities in any…

  • Works in 3 steps: Ask the review questions above → Note which properties are weakly exhibited → Describe a concrete change that would…
  • Tasks that involve Refactoring
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, The Five Lenses, Quick Reference and Using CUPID as a Review Lens, plus 3 more sections
  • Calls gh; reaches img.shields.io

What it does

Cupid Code Review is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when reviewing or refactoring code and wanting a structured lens beyond SOLID — applies Daniel Terhorst-North's CUPID properties to surface improvement opportunities in any codebase or language.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.5k 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 Refactoring and Code review. The repository describes itself as: A set of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot plugins providing the AI Literacy framework's complete development workflow — harness engineering, agent orchestration, literate….

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Refactoring
  • Tasks that involve Code review

Example prompts

  • “/cupid-code-review”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Ask the review questions above
  2. Note which properties are weakly exhibited
  3. Describe a concrete change that would move toward the property

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9d35995. 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:

    • gh

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

  • Network

    Hosts in commands or code, which the agent is likely to contact:

    • img.shields.io

    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

Cupid Code Review loads about 2.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 54 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,318 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~54
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.5k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,318 words (~2,517 tokens).

“CUPID is a set of five properties — Composable, Unix philosophy, Predictable, Idiomatic, Domain-based — described by Daniel Terhorst-North as things good code tends toward, not rules it must comply with. That makes them ideal review lenses: you are asking…”

— opening of SKILL.md by Habitat-Thinking, Custom licence
name
cupid-code-review

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cupid-code-review of Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9d35995

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Questions about Cupid Code Review

What does Cupid Code Review do?

A skill your agent uses when reviewing or refactoring code and wanting a structured lens beyond SOLID — applies Daniel Terhorst-North's CUPID properties to surface improvement opportunities in any…. Cupid Code Review is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when reviewing or refactoring code and wanting a structured lens beyond SOLID — applies Daniel Terhorst-North's CUPID properties to surface improvement opportunities in any codebase or language.

When should I use Cupid Code Review?

Cupid Code Review fits situations like: tasks that involve Refactoring; tasks that involve Code review.

How do I install Cupid Code Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cupid-code-review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cupid-code-review in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .claude/skills/cupid-code-review in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Cupid Code Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cupid-code-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/cupid-code-review in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .agents/skills/cupid-code-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Cupid 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 Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill cupid-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/cupid-code-review, .gemini/skills/cupid-code-review, .github/skills/cupid-code-review and .opencode/skills/cupid-code-review in your project.

What does Cupid Code Review need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Cupid Code Review needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh).

Does Cupid Code Review access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. In commands or code: img.shields.io; the agent is likely to contact it when it follows the instructions. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Cupid 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 Cupid Code Review use?

Cupid Code Review has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Cupid Code Review use?

About 2.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 10k 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 Cupid Code Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cupid Code Review: Dignified Python Standards (docling-project/docling, 69k stars), Clean Code Guard (amElnagdy/guard-skills, 1.3k stars), Maintainable Code for iPolloWork (Devin-AXIS/iPolloWork, 6.8k stars) and Over-Engineering Review (DietrichGebert/ponytail, 159k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Cupid Code Review?

Habitat-Thinking (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.

Source: Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.