Have a second model review a branch on this machine before its pull request opens, fix what holds up, and repeat until a round comes back clean or three rounds pass. Use when about to open a pull request or push a fix to one, when the user says review loop or asks for a second opinion before the PR, or when a repo's instructions name the review loop.
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What the file says
# Review loop
A pull request should reach the review bot already clean. The bot then reviews once, and the PR merges on that one pass instead of collecting a fix push per finding. The review loop is that cleaning: a **second model** reads the branch's diff in a fresh context, the author fixes what holds up, and the loop repeats, at most three rounds.
The reviewer is Codex through `codex review`, on the Codex subscription the machine already signs in with. It costs one Codex review per round and no API spend. A repo whose instructions name a different reviewer, or a heavier pre-PR review such as [adversarial-review](../../run/adversarial-review/SKILL.md), keeps its own; the loop is the light pass for every other PR.
## Steps
1. **Ready the branch.** Commit the work and run the checks the repo requires before a PR. Fetch the base branch the PR will target. Done when the working tree is clean and `git log origin/<base>..HEAD` lists exactly the work for this PR.
2. **Run a round.** One review of the whole branch against its base. `codex review` refuses `--base` together with instructions, so the base goes inside the instructions:
```bash
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timharris707/skills · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
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