Agent skill

Review

by nevalang in nevalang/neva

A skill your agent uses for focused review of a Neva pull request, branch, diff, or patch.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nevalang/neva --skill review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nevalang/neva 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/nevalang/neva.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.codex/skills/review .claude/skills/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
review
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~382 tokens
SKILL.md length
182 words
Files
5 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses for focused review of a Neva pull request, branch, diff, or patch.

  • Works in 5 steps: Read the diff and required repository… → Select the focused perspectives that… → Choose whether to use subagents based on… → …
  • Focused review of a Neva pull request
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow and Output Contract
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Review is an agent skill from nevalang/neva. Use for focused review of a Neva pull request, branch, diff, or patch.

Its SKILL.md is about 380 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 5 other files, including reference files (for example `references/review-correctness.md`, `references/review-performance.md` and `references/review-readability.md`).

It sits in Development, covering Pull requests. The repository describes itself as: Dataflow programming language where you write a program as a message-passing graph and everything runs in parallel by default. It has strong static types, compiles to machine… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Focused review of a Neva pull request
  • Tasks that involve Pull requests

Example prompts

  • “/review”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Read the diff and required repository context
  2. Select the focused perspectives that match the change and its risk
  3. Choose whether to use subagents based on the change's size and risk. For a
  4. Deduplicate overlapping findings.
  5. Output only actionable findings and blocking questions. If there are no

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 127afd9. 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

Review loads about 382 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.5k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 19 tokens; SKILL.md has 182 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~19
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~382
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~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

The full file from nevalang/neva at commit 127afd9, republished under its MIT licence (© nevalang). 182 words, ~382 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/review/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
review
description
Use for focused review of a Neva pull request, branch, diff, or patch.

Review

Use this skill for high-signal review of a code change. The change may be a pull request, a branch, a local diff, or a patch. The goal is to publish only required changes or blocking questions.

Workflow

  1. Read the diff and required repository context:
    • AGENTS.md
    • canonical documentation named by its change-routing table
  2. Select the focused perspectives that match the change and its risk:
    • correctness: references/review-correctness.md
    • style and readability: docs/user/style_guide.md for Neva code, plus references/review-readability.md
    • performance: references/review-performance.md
    • security: references/review-security.md
  3. Choose whether to use subagents based on the change's size and risk. For a small, focused diff, review directly; for a broad or high-risk diff, split the selected perspectives into focused passes with task-specific prompts.
  4. Deduplicate overlapping findings.
  5. Output only actionable findings and blocking questions. If there are no meaningful findings, say that clearly.

Output Contract

  • Findings first, ordered by severity.
  • Include file/line references whenever possible.
  • Keep the output proportionate to the findings; do not impose a template when there is no meaningful feedback.
  • Report clear violations of docs/user/style_guide.md for Neva code. Do not report subjective style preferences.

© nevalang, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (references) in .codex/skills/review of nevalang/neva.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/review-correctness.md
  • references/review-performance.md
  • references/review-readability.md
  • references/review-security.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 127afd9

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Categories

Questions about Review

What does Review do?

A skill your agent uses for focused review of a Neva pull request, branch, diff, or patch. Review is an agent skill from nevalang/neva. Use for focused review of a Neva pull request, branch, diff, or patch.

When should I use Review?

Review fits situations like: focused review of a Neva pull request; tasks that involve Pull requests.

How do I install Review in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Review in Codex?

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

Can I use 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 nevalang/neva --skill 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/review, .gemini/skills/review, .github/skills/review and .opencode/skills/review in your project.

What does Review need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Review is instructions for the agent only.

Does 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 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 Review use?

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 Review use?

About 382 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Review: Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars), Check PR (onyx-dot-app/onyx, 32k stars) and PR Design Doc (OpenHands/OpenHands, 90k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Review?

nevalang (a GitHub organization) maintains it in nevalang/neva, which has 1,085 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 23, 2026.

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