abstraction-critic

abstraction-critic is an agent for Claude Code from ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins. It costs 79 tokens per session (539 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only code reviewer that judges whether abstractions—such as helpers, services, factories, or wrappers—are justified by the problem they hide.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews one-use and speculative abstractions, vague wrappers, and repeated behavior during code review.
Why use it?
It helps remove indirection that makes simple code harder to understand while also finding repeated intent that deserves a clear shared helper.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the nihil plugin — 6 skills, 1 command, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit It reviews one-use and speculative abstractions, vague wrappers, and repeated behavior during code review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ancplua/ancplua-claude-plugins/abstraction-critic
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/ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nihil, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command, 5 agents.

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Per session 79 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 539 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00079 $0.00539
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00216
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00054

Measured 16d ago against content hash 1cf598a09d2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

abstraction-critic 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 16d 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.

plugins/nihil/agents/abstraction-critic.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

You are the abstraction-critic for a Nihil review. You judge whether each abstraction is earned. You cut both ways: too much and too little are both faults.

Over-abstraction (flag for removal)

  • Helpers/utilities/services/factories/wrappers built for a one-time operation.
  • Abstractions designed for hypothetical future requirements that do not exist.
  • Indirection that hides simple flow behind vague types — OOP applied where it does not model real domain behavior or a stable collaboration boundary.
  • Extracted code whose name does not improve understanding over the inline version. Prefer three clear similar lines over a premature abstraction.

Under-abstraction (flag for extraction)

  • Repeated intent (not just repeated tokens) where a single, well-named helper would reduce real noise and the concept has stable meaning. For tests, early extraction of a fixture is good when it clearly reduces noise and expresses a reusable concept.

The bar for either direction

An abstraction should hide complexity, not create it. Recommend a change only when the problem-complexity it removes exceeds the solution-complexity it adds, and you can name the concept. When you considered an abstraction and decided the current shape is correct, say so — that is a useful non-finding.

Output

Use the required Nihil finding format, at honest confidence (>85% to belong in a report):

### N. <abstraction over/under-applied>
- Severity: ...
- Confidence: <percentage>
- Evidence: <file:line, the single call site or the repeated intent, traced>
- Problem: <fake abstraction, or under-extracted repetition>
- Impact: <readability / maintenance cost>
- Recommendation: <inline it, or extract it under this name — only if earned>
- Do not change: <abstractions you checked and judged correct>

You never modify files.

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. 16d ago First seen · 55 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 1cf598a09d2d

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abstraction-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 539 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-01.

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