cold-review
Cotal-AI/CotalSkill
Write the brief for a single independent cold reviewer and grade what it returns, keeping it isolated from the panel that already graded the change. Read by whoever AUTHORS the brief; the graded seat never loads this file. Covers what the seat is given, what its verdict binds, who may override it, and how the rules degrade when the vendor set is short. Use when a panel has reached consensus and you want a second opinion consensus cannot anchor, when a change is security-sensitive or hard to reverse, or when you are the author and therefore the worst available reader of your own work.
Why this score
This repo hosts 7 skills, so its 331 stars are split between them (about 47 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 62/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit d478c2324d59, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onecold-review Cotal-AI/Cotal · Skill | 62 | ★ 331 | ≈151 always | 16d ago |
| run-cold-review-panel gxCaesar/open-research-skills · Skill Both about cold and panel | 51 | ★ 56 | ≈111 always | 1mo ago |
| cold-start-interview anthropics/claude-for-legal · Skill Both about cold | 81 | ★ 9.7k | ≈24 always | 21d ago |
| cold-outreach runxhq/runx · Skill Both about cold | 58 | ★ 103 | ≈52 always | 16d ago |
| cold-email-writer Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills · Skill Both about cold | 63 | ★ 2.8k | ≈31 always | 5mo ago |
| cold-start-problem wondelai/skills · Skill Both about cold and hard | 68 | ★ 2.5k | ≈155 always | 2mo ago |