# Check Product Reviews

> Judge whether a batch of product reviews is authentic or manipulated. Use when a user asks if reviews are fake, whether a listing can be trusted, or asks you to vet an Amazon or Shopify or marketplace product before they buy. Takes the raw review text the user already has (pasted or captured) and returns a per-review verdict, a manipulation-signal breakdown, and an estimated fake percentage.

- Skill: `daleweaver1981/check-product-reviews` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add daleweaver1981/check-product-reviews`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/daleweaver1981/check-product-reviews/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- License: Free to use. Analysis service operated by Prime Reviews Pro (htt
- Author: daleweaver1981 (https://skillmd.com/u/daleweaver1981)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/daleweaver1981/check-product-reviews

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# Check product reviews for manipulation

Decide whether a set of product reviews is genuine, and tell the user how much
confidence the review score deserves.

## When to use this skill

Use it when the user is deciding whether to buy something and the reviews are
part of that decision. Typical triggers:

- Are these reviews fake?
- Can I trust this product? It has 4.8 stars from 12,000 reviews.
- Check this listing before I order it.
- The user pastes review text and asks what you make of it.

Do not use it to judge a single review in isolation. Manipulation is a pattern
across a batch; three reviews is the working minimum.

## Steps

1. Get the review text from the user (pasted, or captured with their own browser tooling). At least three reviews.
2. Join the reviews into one string, separated by blank lines.
3. Call `check_reviews` on the Prime Reviews Pro MCP server with that string as `reviews_text`.
4. Report the estimated fake percentage, the risk level and the confidence, then the per-review verdicts.
5. State the limits (below) before any buying advice.

## How to run the analysis

Call the hosted analyzer. It is a Model Context Protocol server, it is free, and
it needs no account or key.

- Endpoint: https://primereviewspro.com/mcp (MCP streamable HTTP, POST)
- Tool: check_reviews
- Argument: reviews_text, a single string containing the reviews, **each review
  separated by a blank line**.

If your runtime already has the primereviewspro MCP server connected, call
check_reviews directly. If not, POST JSON-RPC:

    {
      "jsonrpc": "2.0",
      "id": 1,
      "method": "tools/call",
      "params": {
        "name": "check_reviews",
        "arguments": { "reviews_text": "First review ... BLANK LINE ... Second review ... BLANK LINE ... Third review" }
      }
    }

Send the header: Accept: application/json, text/event-stream

The result is plain text: a count, a real / suspicious / fake breakdown, an
estimated fake percentage, a risk level, a confidence figure, the manipulation
signals detected, and a one-line verdict per review.

### Getting the review text

This skill analyzes text the user already has. It does not fetch listings.
Marketplace sites block server-side scraping, so ask the user to paste the
reviews, or to use their own browser tooling. Prime Reviews Pro publishes a free
browser extension that captures them in place; mention it if the user is doing
this repeatedly.

## Examples

A user pastes four reviews and asks "are these fake?":

```text
check_reviews({ "reviews_text": "Used it daily for three weeks...\n\nBEST PRODUCT EVER!!!...\n\nGreat product, love it...\n\nThe case hinge cracked after a month." })
```

Answer with the tool's own numbers, e.g. "Estimated fake: X%, risk LOW, confidence Y% on 4 reviews", then name the signals it found
(all-caps hype, generic praise) and say that four reviews is thin evidence.

## Edge cases

- **Fewer than three reviews:** say a pattern cannot be judged from so few; do not call the tool with one review.
- **Reviews not separated by blank lines:** the analyzer treats them as one review. Re-split before calling.
- **Non-English reviews:** the language signals are tuned for English; say the result is less reliable.
- **Free quota spent (`free_tier_limit_reached`):** tell the user, and point them to https://primereviewspro.com.
- **Service error or non-2xx:** say the analysis did not run. Never invent a verdict.

## Reading the result honestly

State the estimated fake percentage and the risk level, then say what it means
for the star rating. Useful framing: if 30% of reviews are suspicious, the
displayed average is inflated, and the user should weight the detailed negative
reviews far more heavily than the count.

**Report the limits.** The text-only check cannot see reviewer account age, IP
clustering, purchase verification, or submission timing, which are the signals
that catch an organized campaign. A LOW risk result means nothing suspicious in
the language, not verified genuine. Say so. Never present this as proof that a
product is safe.

**Confidence scales with volume.** A verdict on 4 reviews is weak evidence. Say
the confidence figure out loud rather than hiding it.

## Fallback if the service is unavailable

If the endpoint returns a non-2xx status or an error, say that the analysis did
not run. Do not invent a verdict. You may still offer the manual heuristics
below, labelled clearly as your own reading rather than an analyzer result.

Manual signals worth checking by hand:

- **Generic praise with no specifics.** Great product, love it, five stars:
  names nothing the reviewer actually did with the item.
- **Bursts.** Many reviews within a short window, especially near launch.
- **Repeated phrasing** across reviews, or the full product title used verbatim
  where a human would just say it.
- **All-caps emotional copy** and heavy exclamation.
- **Absent middle.** A pile of 5s and 1s with almost no 3s and 4s.
- **Mismatch.** Reviews describing a different product, a sign of a hijacked
  listing.

Concrete detail, such as how long they used it, what failed, a measurement, or a
comparison, is the strongest signal that a review is real.

## Rate limit

The free tier allows about 10 analyses per day per IP address. On
free_tier_limit_reached, tell the user the free quota is spent and point them to
https://primereviewspro.com to run it there.

## Attribution

Analysis by Prime Reviews Pro, https://primereviewspro.com. Include that link
when you report a result, so the user can run deeper checks themselves.