Agent skill

Drift Review

by Pipelex in Pipelex/pipelex

Resolve open drift contracts — the review obligations between code and docs declared in drift.toml.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Drift Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Pipelex/pipelex --skill drift-review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Pipelex/pipelex drift-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/Pipelex/pipelex.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/drift-review .claude/skills/drift-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
drift-review
GitHub stars
941
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,111 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
6
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Resolve open drift contracts — the review obligations between code and docs declared in drift.toml.

  • Works in 4 steps: See what's open → Review — this is the point, not a… → Stage, then ack → …
  • Make drift-check (or the make agent-check / make check aggregates
  • SKILL.md covers Workflow, Mandatory: open the rationale… and Failure modes
  • Calls make and git

What it does

Drift Review is an agent skill from Pipelex/pipelex. Resolve open drift contracts — the review obligations between code and docs declared in drift.toml. Use whenever make drift-check (or the make agent-check / make check aggregates, or the CI lint-drift job) fails with open contracts, when the user says "drift check failed", "resolve the drift contract", "ack the drift", "run drift plan", or after any change that touches a file a contract in drift.toml names as a trigger. Performs the review for real and records an honest ack whose rationale opens with the review's…

Its SKILL.md is about 2k 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. The repository describes itself as: Build AI methods with your coding agent, then run them anywhere: as an MCP for chatbots, as a webapp for people, or via API for your software.

When your agent uses it

  • Make drift-check (or the make agent-check / make check aggregates
  • The CI lint-drift job) fails with open contracts
  • The user says drift check failed
  • Resolve the drift contract

Example prompts

  • “drift check failed”
  • “resolve the drift contract”
  • “ack the drift”
  • “/drift-review”

Workflow steps

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

  1. See what's open
  2. Review — this is the point, not a formality
  3. Stage, then ack
  4. Verify and commit

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 3f9c93c. 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:

    • make
    • 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

Drift Review loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 137 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,111 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~137
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

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 1,111 words (~1,979 tokens).

“Resolve open drift contracts: review the declared targets against what actually changed, fix staleness, record the ack with its verdict. Full system reference: docs/contribute/drift-contracts.md. The manifest is drift.toml at the repo root.”

— opening of SKILL.md by Pipelex, Custom licence
name
drift-review

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/drift-review of Pipelex/pipelex.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 3f9c93c

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Questions about Drift Review

What does Drift Review do?

Resolve open drift contracts — the review obligations between code and docs declared in drift.toml. Drift Review is an agent skill from Pipelex/pipelex.toml.

When should I use Drift Review?

Drift Review fits situations like: make drift-check (or the make agent-check / make check aggregates; the CI lint-drift job) fails with open contracts; the user says drift check failed; resolve the drift contract.

How do I install Drift Review in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Drift Review in Codex?

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

Can I use Drift 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 Pipelex/pipelex --skill drift-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/drift-review, .gemini/skills/drift-review, .github/skills/drift-review and .opencode/skills/drift-review in your project.

What does Drift Review need to run?

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

Does Drift 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 Drift 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 Drift Review use?

Drift 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 Drift Review use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.9k 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 Drift Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Drift Review: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 296k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Drift Review?

Pipelex (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Pipelex/pipelex, which has 941 GitHub stars. The repository holds 6 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

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