# session-review

Review a substantial coding session with independent reviewers, then turn their findings into immediate fixes or a measurable follow-up plan.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 34
- Author: awrshift
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/session-review/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/session-review

## What it does

At the end of a substantial coding or design session, the skill assembles the project context, goal, work completed, and questions to challenge into a standalone brief. It then runs reviewers in parallel: an isolated code-reader checks the actual files and web-checks whether the chosen technologies are current. An external-family model can join when available.

The agent compares findings, resolves disagreements on their merits, and challenges claims it rejects. It applies small, safe fixes and verifies them with artifacts such as tests or lint; larger changes go into a plan with a measurable outcome. This is for substantial work, not trivial one-off edits.

The closeout records what was found, applied, planned, or challenged, then reflects on the rules and orchestration that shaped the session. Invoke it explicitly with `/session-review`; automatic triggering is not expected.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill session-review -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/session-review/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/session-review/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill session-review -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/session-review/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill session-review -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/session-review/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install awrshift/agent-memory-kit session-review
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/session-review/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill session-review -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit --path plugins/memory-kit/skills/session-review
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/session-review/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add awrshift/agent-memory-kit --skill session-review -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/awrshift/agent-memory-kit/tree/HEAD/plugins/memory-kit/skills/session-review/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- review decisions made during a coding session
- have an independent reviewer inspect the actual files
- resolve disagreements between reviewers
- separate safe immediate fixes from larger planned work
- identify which workflow rules helped or caused friction

## Example prompts
- Review this session and challenge the decisions we made with `/session-review`.
- Stress-test the changes: ask a reviewer to inspect the files and check whether the chosen technologies are current.
- Close out this coding session, apply safe fixes, and write a measurable plan for the remaining work.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: session-review
description: >-
  End-of-session adversarial review loop. Assemble the session's work into a role-assigned,
  self-contained brief, then run independent reviewers in parallel — an isolated code-reader
  (the idea-validator agent) that reads the ACTUAL files and web-checks technology currency,
  plus an external-family model if you have one — synthesize where they agree vs diverge,
  apply the cheap-safe fixes immediately, record a measurable plan for the rest, and CHALLENGE
  reviewer claims you disagree with (never blind-accept). Use at the close of a substantive
  coding or design session, when the user says "session review", "review my session",
  "stress-test this session", or types /session-review. Skip for trivial one-off edits.
---

# Session Review — the adversarial closing loop

Stress-test a session's work **before it sets**, using reviewers who don't share your blind
spots. You wrote the work, so you are the worst person to spot what you assumed. The loop ends
in *action*: cheap-safe fixes applied immediately, the rest recorded as a measurable plan, and
anything you disagree with explicitly challenged — not silently accepted, not silently dropped.

Invocation is usually EXPLICIT (`/session-review`) — "review" is something the agent does
natively, so don't expect auto-triggering; invoke it by name at session close.

## The loop

### 1. Assemble the brief (the load-bearing step)
Write ONE self-contained markdown brief (e.g. to `/tmp/<repo>-session-review.md`). It is the
only context the reviewers get. It must contain:
- **An assigned role** that fits the work ("Principal Engineer" for a feature slice, "Security
  reviewer" for auth work) — the role is the lens.
- **Project context** a stranger can follow, **the session goal**, and **what was built**, with
  concrete file:line references.
- **The specific decision points you most want challenged** — and for anything that turns on
  CURRENT best practice, an explicit ask to web-check with sources.
- **What to return** — a structured verdict with severity, file refs, a short MEASURABLE plan.

Never let the brief be the reviewer's only window: tell the code-reader explicitly
**"do not trust this summary — read the actual files."** Your summary is where your blind
spots live.

### 2. Run the reviewers IN PARALLEL (same message)
- **Reviewer A — the isolated code-reader.** Spawn `idea-validator` pointed at the brief AND
  the actual files, with the currency instruction: "web-check whether every library / runtime /
  pattern I chose is still the right choice this year, cite sources." Without that line it only
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