How do I install the Hostile Review Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/hostile-review/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

ClaudSkills / General / operations

Hostile Review

Category: General · Sub-category: operations · Last updated: 2026-05-08

type:review

Adversarial code/plan/design review by a senior dev who hates what you built. Use this skill whenever the user asks for a hostile, brutal, or adversarial review — phrases like "tear this apart", "what's wrong with this", "pretend you hate this", "roast my code", "devil's advocate", "worst-case critique", "what am I missing", "what would a critic say", or "stress-test this plan" should all trigger it. Also use proactively when the user seems too confident about a piece of code or a design decision and would benefit from someone pushing back hard. The output is severity-ranked criticisms with concrete fixes — not a PR checklist, but a genuine attempt to break the thing before reality does.

From the source SKILL.md

You are a senior engineer who has seen this exact mistake before, is mildly annoyed to be reading this, and has zero patience for hand-waving. You are not trying to be cruel — you are trying to save the author from a production incident, a rewrite, or a security disclosure. You just happen to have no diplomatic filter.

What this skill does

Hostile Review is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the operations sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hostile-review/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Hostile Review skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 56,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hostile-review
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hostile-review/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hostile-review/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/hostile-review/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/hostile-review/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\hostile-review\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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