Agent skill

Hier Config Review

A skill your agent uses when asked to review changes, self-review work, or prepare a pull request in the hierconfig repository — especially before opening or updating a PR, or when checking…

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Install Hier Config Review

skills CLI

$ npx skills add netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install netdevops/hier_config hier-config-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/netdevops/hier_config.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hier-config-review .claude/skills/hier-config-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/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "hier-config-review" agent skill from https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config/tree/master/.claude/skills/hier-config-review into .claude/skills/hier-config-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hier-config-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

$skill-installer install https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config/tree/master/.claude/skills/hier-config-review

Type 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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-review -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install netdevops/hier_config hier-config-review --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hier-config-review .agents/skills/hier-config-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "hier-config-review" agent skill from https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config/tree/master/.claude/skills/hier-config-review into .agents/skills/hier-config-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hier-config-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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-review -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install netdevops/hier_config hier-config-review --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hier-config-review .cursor/skills/hier-config-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "hier-config-review" agent skill from https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config/tree/master/.claude/skills/hier-config-review into .cursor/skills/hier-config-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hier-config-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

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config.git --path .claude/skills/hier-config-review

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-review -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install netdevops/hier_config hier-config-review --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hier-config-review .gemini/skills/hier-config-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "hier-config-review" agent skill from https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config/tree/master/.claude/skills/hier-config-review into .gemini/skills/hier-config-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hier-config-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.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install netdevops/hier_config hier-config-review

Installs 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).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-review -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hier-config-review .github/skills/hier-config-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "hier-config-review" agent skill from https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config/tree/master/.claude/skills/hier-config-review into .github/skills/hier-config-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hier-config-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.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-review -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install netdevops/hier_config hier-config-review --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/hier-config-review .opencode/skills/hier-config-review && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "hier-config-review" agent skill from https://github.com/netdevops/hier_config/tree/master/.claude/skills/hier-config-review into .opencode/skills/hier-config-review/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "hier-config-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: hier-config-review
GitHub stars: 150
Token cost: ~903 tokens
SKILL.md length: 375 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 3
Repo updated: Sep 21, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when asked to review changes, self-review work, or prepare a pull request in the hierconfig repository — especially before opening or updating a PR, or when checking…

Works in 4 steps: Establish the Diff → Run the Gates → Review by Category → …
Asked to review changes
SKILL.md covers Step 1: Establish the Diff, Step 2: Run the Gates, Step 3: Review by Category and Step 4: Report
Calls git and poetry

What it does

Hier Config Review is an agent skill from netdevops/hier_config. Use when asked to review changes, self-review work, or prepare a pull request in the hierconfig repository — especially before opening or updating a PR, or when checking AI-generated code against this repo's standards.

Its SKILL.md is about 900 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. It works with Pydantic. The repository describes itself as: Hierarchical Configuration. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Asked to review changes
Self-review work
Prepare a pull request in the hierconfig repository — especially before opening
Checking AI-generated code against this repos standards

Example prompts

“/hier-config-review”

Workflow steps

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

Establish the Diff
Run the Gates
Review by Category
Report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 806c654. 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
- poetry
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

Hier Config Review loads about 903 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 375 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~903

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 netdevops/hier_config at commit 806c654, republished under its MIT licence (© netdevops). 375 words, ~903 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hier-config-review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: hier-config-review
description: Use when asked to review changes, self-review work, or prepare a pull request in the hier_config repository — especially before opening or updating a PR, or when checking AI-generated code against this repo's standards.

hier_config Change Review

Review the current change set against this repository's standards and report findings. Do not fix anything unless explicitly asked — the deliverable is the review report.

Step 1: Establish the Diff

bash

git diff master...HEAD --stat   # on a branch
git diff HEAD --stat            # fall back: uncommitted work
git diff --staged --stat        # fall back: staged only

List every changed file and classify it: library code (hier_config/), tests (tests/), docs (docs/, mkdocs.yml), CI/config, or CHANGELOG.md. Read the full diff for each classified file before judging it.

Step 2: Run the Gates

Run these and report exact failures (tool, file, line, message):

bash

poetry run ./scripts/build.py lint
poetry run ./scripts/build.py pytest --coverage

If docs/ or mkdocs.yml changed, also run:

bash

poetry run mkdocs build --strict

Step 3: Review by Category

Read the referenced doc before judging that category — the docs are the standard, not your intuition.

Models & Typing — read `docs/dev/code-style.md`

New Pydantic models subclass the local BaseModel (hier_config/models.py), never pydantic.BaseModel directly.
Model fields use tuple/frozenset, never list/set. Rule models use match_rules: tuple[MatchRule, ...].
No Any, no missing annotations, no unjustified # type: ignore / # noqa.
Lint/coverage/type-checking configuration was not loosened.

Tests & TDD — read `docs/dev/testing.md`

Every library code change has corresponding tests.
Tests are flat functions with full annotations; no test classes (benchmarks excepted).
Driver changes are tested in tests/test_driver_<platform>.py; view changes in tests/config_view/.
Driver/rule behavior changes include the round-trip idiom: remediation asserted via dump_simple() tuple, rollback verified via no unified_diff.
New fixtures live in tests/fixtures/ with module-scoped accessors in tests/conftest.py.

Show full SKILL.md (169 more words)Show less

Driver & Rule Changes — read `docs/dev/extending.md`

New rule types: frozen model in models.py → named default factory + field on HConfigDriverRules → consumed in child.py/root.py → populated in drivers.
New platforms: Platform enum member, get_hconfig_driver wiring, per-platform test file, and a driver section + table row in docs/user/drivers.md.

Changelog

CHANGELOG.md has an entry under ## [Unreleased], in the right category (Added/Changed/Fixed/Removed), referencing the issue/PR ((#NNN)).

Docs

Public API or driver behavior changes are reflected in docs/user/ (and docs/user/api-reference.md where relevant).
New doc pages are in the mkdocs.yml nav; moved pages have a redirect_maps entry.

Commits — read `CONTRIBUTING.md` (Commit Message Style)

Imperative mood, subject ≤72 characters, body explains why.

Step 4: Report

Group findings by severity, most severe first:

Blockers — violates a hard rule or a gate fails (CI would reject this).
Should fix — deviates from documented conventions; a reviewer would push back.
Nits — minor style or wording.

Each finding: file:line, what is wrong, and which standard it violates (with the doc path). End with a pass/fail verdict against the "Before Opening a PR" checklist in AGENTS.md.

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/hier-config-review of netdevops/hier_config.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 806c654

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Questions about Hier Config Review

What does Hier Config Review do?

A skill your agent uses when asked to review changes, self-review work, or prepare a pull request in the hierconfig repository — especially before opening or updating a PR, or when checking…. Hier Config Review is an agent skill from netdevops/hier_config. Use when asked to review changes, self-review work, or prepare a pull request in the hierconfig repository — especially before opening or updating a PR, or when checking AI-generated code against this repo's standards.

When should I use Hier Config Review?

Hier Config Review fits situations like: asked to review changes; self-review work; prepare a pull request in the hierconfig repository — especially before opening; checking AI-generated code against this repos standards.

How do I install Hier Config Review in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Hier Config Review in Codex?

Run `npx skills add netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/hier-config-review in netdevops/hier_config) into .agents/skills/hier-config-review in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Hier Config 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 netdevops/hier_config --skill hier-config-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/hier-config-review, .gemini/skills/hier-config-review, .github/skills/hier-config-review and .opencode/skills/hier-config-review in your project.

What does Hier Config Review need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Hier Config Review needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git and poetry).

Does Hier Config 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 Hier Config 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 Hier Config Review use?

Hier Config 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 Hier Config Review use?

About 903 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Hier Config Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Hier Config Review: Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 296k stars), PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars), Check PR (onyx-dot-app/onyx, 32k stars) and Understand Diff Analysis (Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, 86k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Hier Config Review?

netdevops (a GitHub organization) maintains it in netdevops/hier_config, which has 150 GitHub stars. The repository holds 3 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 21, 2026.

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

Install Hier Config Review

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

hier_config Change Review

Step 1: Establish the Diff

Step 2: Run the Gates

Step 3: Review by Category

Models & Typing — read docs/dev/code-style.md

Tests & TDD — read docs/dev/testing.md

Driver & Rule Changes — read docs/dev/extending.md

Changelog

Docs

Commits — read CONTRIBUTING.md (Commit Message Style)

Step 4: Report

Files

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Related

Questions about Hier Config Review

Models & Typing — read `docs/dev/code-style.md`

Tests & TDD — read `docs/dev/testing.md`

Driver & Rule Changes — read `docs/dev/extending.md`

Commits — read `CONTRIBUTING.md` (Commit Message Style)