Sonnet Review — Code Quality skill for Claude Code
Cheaper-but-trustworthy code review — a verify-hybrid twin of /code-review with ESCALATE-ON-REFUTE verifiers.
How to install Sonnet Review
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/laxen123-the-machinery-sonnet-review.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Laxen123/the-machinery/HEAD/.claude/commands/sonnet-review.md -o ~/.claude/commands/laxen123-the-machinery-sonnet-review.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Sonnet Review does
description: Cheaper-but-trustworthy code review — a verify-hybrid twin of /code-review with ESCALATE-ON-REFUTE verifiers. Runs the same fan-out workflow (scope → finders → per-location verifiers → sweep → synthesis); finders/scope/sweep/synthesis AND the round-1 verifiers are pinned to claude-sonnet-high (the cheap bulk), and only when a verifier REFUTES a candidate does a claude-opus-high adjudicator re-judge that location before it is dropped, REGARDLESS of the session model. ~1.1-1.4x pu
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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