# Human Review

> Open an HTML file, Markdown file, or localhost page in the browser so the user can edit text directly and leave comments on specific parts, then send all edits and comments back to you. Use after writing or updating something the user will read — specs, plans, reports, newsletter drafts, landing pages, slide decks, and locally running web pages.

- Skill: `theheavenlyd3mon/human-review` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds add theheavenlyd3mon/human-review`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/theheavenlyd3mon/human-review/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Web & Frontend
- Author: theheavenlyd3mon (https://skillmd.com/u/theheavenlyd3mon)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/theheavenlyd3mon/human-review

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# human-review

The user reviews your HTML, Markdown, or localhost page in a real browser: they fix small things
by typing, select anything to comment on it, and send you the whole batch at once.

Markdown files open rendered. Their quotes and edits reference the rendered text,
and the file itself is never touched — apply every change to the Markdown source,
keeping its formatting syntax.

## The loop

1. Write or update the HTML or Markdown file, or start the local page being reviewed.
2. Open it for the user:

   ```sh
   npx -y human-review path/to/file.html
   ```

   For a page served by a local development server, open the real route instead
   of recreating it as a separate HTML file:

   ```sh
   npx -y human-review http://localhost:3000/wiki
   ```

3. Wait for feedback. This blocks until they hit Send, or the timeout passes:

   ```sh
   npx -y human-review poll path/to/file.html --timeout 600
   ```

   Keep this command in the foreground. Do not end your turn while it is waiting.
   If your shell returns a process or session handle, keep waiting on that handle
   until the command exits. If it prints `{"status":"timeout"}`, no feedback has
   arrived yet — run the same poll command again to keep waiting. Feedback is
   saved even if a poll dies, so nothing is ever lost.

   If it prints `{"status":"closed"}`, the user ended the review from the
   browser — stop polling and do not run the poll command again. Unsent
   feedback is kept and ships the next time this target is reviewed.

4. Apply what comes back, then wait again. `--ack` clears the batch you just handled:

   ```sh
   npx -y human-review poll path/to/file.html --ack --timeout 600
   ```

Repeat 3–4 until the user says they are done.

Not sure whether feedback is already waiting — say, at the start of a new turn?
This answers instantly without blocking:

```sh
npx -y human-review status path/to/file.html
```

It prints `{"status": "feedback-waiting"}` when a batch is ready for a poll,
plus counts of unsent comments and edits still in the browser.

## What you get

One batch covers every page the user visited, grouped by file or localhost URL.

```json
{
  "status": "feedback",
  "pages": [
    {
      "file": "/abs/path/to/page.html",
      "comments": [
        { "id": "c_1", "kind": "selection", "quote": "the exact text they selected",
          "anchor": { "prefix": "...", "quote": "...", "suffix": "..." },
          "feedback": "what they want changed" }
      ],
      "edits": [
        { "label": "Problem body", "kind": "edited",
          "before": "the original wording",
          "after": "their exact new wording",
          "after_html": "their exact new wording with <strong>formatting</strong>" }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "overall_note": "feedback not tied to any one page"
}
```

## Rules

- **`edits` are changes the user already made.** `after` is their exact wording —
  carry it across verbatim and never revert it. If the HTML was generated from
  something else (MDX, Markdown, a template), apply `after` to the **source** too,
  or their fix disappears on the next build.
- When `before_html`/`after_html` are present, the user changed formatting, not
  just words — bold, italic, underline, links. Use the HTML version to carry the
  formatting into the source, translated to its syntax (e.g. `<strong>` → `**`
  in Markdown/MDX).
- A page with `kind: "url"` was edited directly in the review UI. Its `file`
  and `url` fields name the localhost route, not a writable file. Find the
  matching project source (such as MDX, TSX, or a template), apply every edit
  and deletion there, then acknowledge so the route reloads. Never write the
  rendered HTTP response back into the app.
- Find each comment by its `quote`; that exact string is in the file.
- `kind: "element"` points at a whole block, so `quote` is its label, not body text.
- Fix every page in `pages`, not just the first.
- **Do not write a reply.** There is no chat. The user sees your work when the page
  reloads, which happens on its own the moment you save the file.

## Better edit labels (optional)

Name the sections you author and the user's edit list uses your names instead of
guessing from the DOM:

```html
<p data-block="Problem body">…</p>
<div data-container="Metrics callout">…</div>
```

`data-block` names a region for the edit list. `data-container` also makes the block
clickable as a comment target.