Fix review

Checks that a fix actually closes the reported issue and did not just move it.

Installation

$ npx skills add trailofbits/skills

The CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in trailofbits/skills, not fix-review alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.

Summary

Checks that a fix actually closes the reported issue and did not just move it.

  • Reach for it when verifying a security patch before you tell the reporter it is resolved.
  • Spans Review and Secure, so it is usually worth loading for the whole piece of work rather than at one moment in it.
  • Stack-agnostic — nothing in it assumes a particular language or framework.
  • Published by Trail of Bits. Well regarded, but not the vendor of the thing it covers.
  • Installing pulls the whole trailofbits/skills repository: this catalogue lists 12 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.

Where it sits in delivery

ReviewReading a diff critically, and the far harder skill of acting on what a reviewer said.Everything in Review
SecureThreat modelling, scanning, supply chain, and finding the other five copies of the bug you just found.Everything in Secure

The agent itself

The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.

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