Agent skill

Review

by vladikk in vladikk/modularity

Analyzes a codebase's modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model and produces a review of design issues.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Review

skills CLI
$ npx skills add vladikk/modularity --skill review -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install vladikk/modularity 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/vladikk/modularity.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/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
554
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
968 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Analyzes a codebase's modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model and produces a review of design issues.

  • Works in 4 steps: Understand the Problem Domain → Map Integrations → Apply the Balance Rule → …
  • Reviewing existing code for coupling problems
  • SKILL.md covers Interaction Rules, Process and Important Constraints
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Review is an agent skill from vladikk/modularity. Analyzes a codebase's modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model and produces a review of design issues. Use when reviewing existing code for coupling problems, assessing architecture quality, identifying distributed monolith risks, or finding areas where changes are unexpectedly expensive.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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: Claude Code plugin for designing modular systems from functional requirements and reviewing existing codebases for modularity problems with actionable improvement…

When your agent uses it

  • Reviewing existing code for coupling problems
  • Assessing architecture quality
  • Identifying distributed monolith risks
  • Finding areas where changes are unexpectedly expensive

Example prompts

  • “Use the review skill to analyz a codebase's modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model and produces a review of design issues”
  • “/review”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Grep, Glob, LSP, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate

Workflow steps

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

  1. Understand the Problem Domain
  2. Map Integrations
  3. Apply the Balance Rule
  4. Write the Review

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bcdca9a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • LSP
    • AskUserQuestion
    • TaskCreate
    • TaskUpdate

    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 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 968 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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 968 words (~1,913 tokens).

“You analyze codebases for modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model by Vlad Khononov (preloaded from the balanced-coupling skill). You produce a review that identifies concrete design issues and explains each one in terms of knowledge encapsulation, complexity, cascading changes…”

— opening of SKILL.md by vladikk, Custom licence
name
review
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Glob, LSP, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate
skills
balanced-coupling, document

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/review of vladikk/modularity.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bcdca9a

Compare with similar skills

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.

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Code Review ChecklistshareAI-lab/learn-claude-code78k5 repos~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Review

What does Review do?

Analyzes a codebase's modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model and produces a review of design issues. Review is an agent skill from vladikk/modularity. Analyzes a codebase's modularity imbalances using the Balanced Coupling model and produces a review of design issues.

When should I use Review?

Review fits situations like: reviewing existing code for coupling problems; assessing architecture quality; identifying distributed monolith risks; finding areas where changes are unexpectedly expensive.

How do I install Review in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add vladikk/modularity --skill review -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/review in vladikk/modularity) 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 vladikk/modularity --skill review -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/review in vladikk/modularity) 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 vladikk/modularity --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. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Grep, Glob, LSP, AskUserQuestion, TaskCreate, TaskUpdate.

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 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 Review use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.7k 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 Review?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Review: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k 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 Review?

vladikk (a GitHub user) maintains it in vladikk/modularity, which has 554 GitHub stars. The repository holds 4 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 31, 2026.

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