Tendril Review

by Ivy-Interactive

Tendril Review is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by Ivy-Interactive in Ivy-Tendril.

176 stars7 forkson Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-TendrilAdded 2026/09/07+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/09/06

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Install Tendril Review

Copy Tendril Review into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril/tree/development/.claude/skills/tendril-review ~/.claude/skills/tendril-review

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/tendril-review/SKILL.md in Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/tendril-review
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1817 skills

What Tendril Review does

Tendril Review performs a thorough review of changed files in the working tree or a branch. Use it after a big change to find code smells, missing tests, broken tests, and cleanup opportunities.

Tendril Review is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Tendril Review comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, agentic-workflow, chatgpt, claude-code and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

tendril-review

Perform a thorough review of all changes in the current working tree (or a specified branch/PR). The goal is to leave every touched file in better code health than before.

Invocation

/tendril-review

No arguments required — operates on the current git diff against the base branch.

What This Skill Does

Identifies ALL changed files (staged, unstaged, and committed on branch)
Reviews each file for code smells, cleanup opportunities, and quality issues
Flags unnecessary legacy/backwards-compatibility code (asks before removing)
Checks test coverage — missing tests, broken tests, obsolete tests
Runs the test suite and reports failures
Produces actionable recommendations

Execution Steps

Phase 1 — Scope the Changes

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Tendril Review provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/tendril-review

Frequently asked about Tendril Review

What else does Ivy-Interactive publish alongside Tendril Review?
Tendril Review is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Tendril Debug Job, Tendril Debug Plan and Tendril Release. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Tendril Review does, and is maintained by Ivy-Interactive in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril page.
How does Tendril Review compare to other Quality skills?
Tendril Review ranks #1706 by stars among the 1817 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Tendril Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.