[Bug] Agent unable to invoke /code-review skill from custom skills
Status Fixed / completed
Reported on v2.1.215
Maintainer reply None cached
Workaround ✓ Mentioned in thread ↓
Activity 7 comments · opened Jul 19, 2026 · closed Aug 15, 2026
Bug Description
I have a skill that finishes up tested work and ships the work as a PR. This involves several steps in the process. One of the steps is to kick automatically kick off a code review using the /code-review skill. As of claude code version 2.1.215. This no longer works and breaks my workflow.
TLDR; My automated workflow is broken, and I am forced to manually complete steps in my workflow 🤮
Please allow/code-review and /verify to be called by the agent again, or at least be explicitly run in a custom skill that I have created an manually kick off.
Alternatively, and configuration toggle this behavior.
Environment Info
- Platform: darwin
- Terminal: ghostty
- Version: 2.1.215
- Feedback ID: ac34ff38-cceb-4d4c-a4a9-44b2a0f771e5
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6 Comments
This was a random, unnecessary, breaking change for people using this skill in automated workflows. I am already implementing a workaround for this but +1, bad idea.
Not sure if it's related but I recently discovered that Codex started to code review automatically after bigger chunk of work, even has it's own budget.
Hopefully, they'll fix it in Claude Code as I also have a few skills like that for claude.
@GeoffNordling - I'd be interested to hear what your workaround was?
Definitely breaks my workflow that's been running smoothly for months. I'd appreciate an opt-in for this skill to be model invokable if it needs guardrails
Oh nothing fancy. I just found the agent can see the verbatim (latent) instruction prompt that /code-review {args} shows it. So, invoke /code-review {args} manually, then tell your agent to copy what it sees into a normal SKILL.md, and then I use that in my workflow now. It will drift from /code-review but also be stable.
this was my workaround too. I made a skill named auto-review that cloned code-review and also reuses the JS that drives the review agents