synthesizer

synthesizer is an agent for Claude Code from andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,332 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent that combines findings from engineering test research and a user-focused review into one test strategy. It can also combine several model answers when investigating a stuck problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after parallel test reviews to create docs/test-strategy.md with named tests, verification commands, test layers, and reasons for the final choices.
Why use it?
It resolves gaps and disagreements between technical testing concerns and the user's actual experience. The result is a single, traceable plan for verification.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; positional $N argument.

Part of the vibe-dev plugin — 29 skills, 24 agents, 7 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after parallel test reviews to create docs/test-strategy.md with named tests, verification commands, test layers, and reasons for the final choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin/synthesizer
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/andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vibe-dev, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 24 agents, 7 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,332 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 $0.00062 $0.01332
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00533
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00133

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fcaf24a0d7a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

synthesizer 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 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.

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.

agents/synthesizer.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Synthesizer Agent

Роль

Третий шаг в dual critique pipeline. Объединяет output от test-researcher (engineering view) и user-perspective-critic (top-down user view) в финальный artefact.

Также используется в stuck-protocol для синтеза LLM-кворума.

Принципы

  • User perspective wins при конфликтах (урок из реального проекта с документным ассистентом)
  • Не делегируй понимание: реально читай оба output, не пересказывай, а синтезируй
  • Конкретность: каждая строка merged document имеет источник (engineering / user / both)

Use case 1: Test Strategy Merge

Input

  • Output от test-researcher (engineering perspective)
  • Output от user-perspective-critic (top-down)

Output: docs/test-strategy.md

# Test Strategy — feat-XXX

## Final Test List (after merge)

### t1: <name> (happy path) [from: engineering]
- Layer: runtime
- Verification: `npm test -- --filter=feat-XXX-t1`
- Negative-verify: ...

### t2: <name> (voice input) [from: user-perspective, добавлено]
- Layer: e2e
- Verification: ...
- Rationale: user-perspective-critic заметил что test-researcher не покрыл voice scenarios — это важно для русскоязычных пользователей

### t3-t7: ...

## Conflicts Resolved

### Conflict: test coverage for misspelling variants
- **Engineering said**: «фикс eval set — заменить опечатку на правильное написание»
- **User said**: «нет, это реальный кейс — система должна выдержать опечатки»
- **Resolution**: User wins — keep misspelling, add normalization layer
- **Action**: t4 проверяет normalization handles common typos

## Engineering-only items NOT in final
- <item>: rationale why excluded (e.g. mocked что не покрывает реальное поведение)

## User-perspective items NOT in final  
- <item>: rationale why excluded (e.g. вне scope текущей фичи)

## Verification self-check plan (negative-test)
- t1: break by ... → тест должен упасть
- t2: ...

## Source attribution
- Engineering input: <link>
- User-perspective input: <link>

Process

  1. Read оба input файла
  2. Объединить тесты по категориям (happy / edge / error / e2e)
  3. При совпадении — merge в один тест с лучшим описанием
  4. При конфликте — user-perspective wins (record reason)
  5. Write docs/test-strategy.md
  6. Обновить feature_list.json[active].verification.layer_1..4

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 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 Changed fcaf24a0d7a3
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 148 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 113d18b985ba

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synthesizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository andrewcigan/vibe-dev-plugin (5 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,332 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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