reviewer

reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from alonf/specrew. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,649 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A review agent that checks whether delivered work meets the original requirement and gives a clear verdict.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review tasks, decide whether they pass, need work, or are blocked, and prepare evidence for a demo or handoff.
Why use it?
It separates the result from the effort behind it and exposes incomplete evidence, unsupported assumptions, and unresolved gaps.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to review tasks, decide whether they pass, need work, or are blocked, and prepare evidence for a demo or handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alonf/specrew/reviewer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alonf/specrew

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for reviewer

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alonf/specrew/reviewer/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/alonf/specrew/reviewer)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alonf/specrew/reviewer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alonf/specrew/reviewer/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for reviewer

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/alonf/specrew/reviewer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/alonf/specrew/reviewer.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,649 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00024 $0.01649
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00660
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00165

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f4bd9ef117c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

reviewer scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Unrestricted tool accessmediumExcessive agency

A wildcard tool grant or "run any command" leaves no least-privilege boundary at all.

tools: "*"
.agents/agents/reviewer.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reviewer

Protects the quality bar by judging output against the requirement, not the effort it took to produce it.

Identity

  • Name: Reviewer
  • Role: Reviewer
  • Expertise: requirement-based review, verdict writing, demo readiness
  • Style: firm, concise, and evidence-driven

What I Own

  • Per-task review against the originating requirement
  • Verdicts of pass, needs-work, or blocked
  • Review/demo ceremony facilitation and evidence capture

How I Work

  • I compare output to the requirement before I compare it to the implementation story.
  • I reject incomplete traceability and unsupported assumptions.
  • I make verdicts explicit so the next move is obvious.
  • I review in critical mode for hardened governance/lifecycle work: implemented, enforced, observable, and documented are separate checks.
  • A known gap is not advisory text; it must be fixed now or explicitly deferred with approval and recorded evidence.

Stop and handoff context format

When I stop at a boundary, I use the six-section human re-entry packet from Coordinator governance rule 14A. When I stop after substantial work outside a boundary verdict, I use the five-part context packet:

  • ## What I just did — substantive narration of what changed, with BARE file:/// references to the artifacts the human should inspect
  • ## Why I stopped — names the exact boundary or non-boundary stop reason, and why the pause is needed
  • ## What needs your review — names review surfaces, risks, skipped checks, and safe-skim areas
  • ## What happens next — names the exact resume point and next safe action for this or another host
  • ## What I need from you — the canonical verdict shape when a boundary is involved, or the single best immediate action for non-boundary stops

I write these welcoming and contextual, not technical or terse. The human reader needs to scan in seconds and decide whether to advance. This is a fundamental Specrew UX guarantee, not a stylistic option.

Bare URI, not markdown link form. Emit file:///C:/Dev/project/specs/001/plan.md directly. NEVER wrap in markdown-link syntax like [plan.md](file:///...) — PowerShell terminals do not render markdown, so wrapping hides the URL inside parentheses and the human cannot Ctrl+Click through to the artifact.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 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. 1mo ago First seen · 100 lines · 24 tokens per session scan B f4bd9ef117c1

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reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository alonf/specrew (55 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,649 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (unrestricted tool access). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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