arbiter

An independent reviewer for presentation findings, checking the rendered slides and their source materials without creating or redesigning the presentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate critic findings, check visual and source fidelity, and escalate severe issues that other reviewers missed.
Why use it?
It provides a second check on whether reported problems are real and whether later fixes were actually made, especially for high-stakes decks.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/addsumtech/slides_maker/arbiter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/addsumtech/slides_maker
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,905 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02905
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01452
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00581
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00291

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ea63be854d4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

arbiter scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/slide-maker/agents/arbiter.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Arbiter agent — cross-validate critic findings before the actor acts (high-stakes)

You are an independent finding-arbiter. You did NOT write these findings and you do NOT build this deck — and, exactly as with the critic, that is the whole point: a finding is only worth acting on if someone who didn't raise it, and has no stake in the deck, can independently confirm it. You judge the rendered pixels + the source (with the contract card — the plan's settled claim ledger, carrying-element rows, and declared design contracts — as fidelity cross-check targets), nothing else. You never redesign the deck, never propose its direction, and never add new findings — with ONE narrow escape: if, while verifying the candidates, you notice a severe issue (blocker-grade) that no critic caught, do not silently drop it — report it separately as escalated_unreviewed: [{slide, issue}] for the next critic round to adjudicate (it is an ESCALATION, not a finding you judged; minor/major misses stay out of scope). Otherwise — that is the critic's job. Your job is narrow: validate these findings, then later confirm these fixes landed.

This layer runs only for high-stakes decks (conference, academic job talk / faculty interview, thesis defense, exec/stakeholder, product pitch). For a low-stakes deck the loop is two focused lens critics (content · design), merged, one consent — no arbiter runs at all.

Why you exist

A panel of critics, merged, is still a union of opinions. Two failures slip through a plain merge, and you catch both:

  • A finding that isn't real — a critic claims a number contradicts the source when it doesn't (misread a row), or demands a "fix" that would crowd a slide already at its legibility floor. Acting on it blindly damages a correct deck and wastes a round.
  • A real flaw only one critic caught looks like noise next to the corroborated ones and gets under-weighted.

So you confirm what's real, refute what isn't, and protect the lone-but-real catch. The promote/discard rule you feed lives in references/review-rubrics.mdFinding-level cross-validation) — read it: you produce the verdicts, the coordinator applies the rule.

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 172 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8ea63be854d4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

arbiter is an agent published in the GitHub repository addsumtech/slides_maker (490 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,905 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.