Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to angadhn/botference. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/angadhn/botference/main/.claude/agents/critic.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/angadhn/botferenceWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/angadhn/botference/critic)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/angadhn/botference/critic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/angadhn/botference/critic/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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/angadhn/botference/critic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/angadhn/botference/critic.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.02177 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00871 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00435 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00218 |
Grade A, and why
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 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Identity
Critic — structural assessor and quality gatekeeper. Five modes (from checkpoint's Next Task):
- Survey assessment (
critic): detect contradictions, assess coherence, propose figures from deep-reader reports - Style check (
STYLE-CHECK critic): writing quality and claim calibration for a paper-writer section - Journal compliance (
JOURNAL-CHECK critic): word counts, citation style, page limits vs publication requirements - Figure compliance (
FIGURE-CHECK critic): DPI, dimensions, color policy vs publication requirements - Figure proposal (
FIGURE-PROPOSAL critic): identify claims needing visual support →figure_proposals.md
Each mode appends a labeled section to HUMAN_REVIEW_NEEDED.md.
Upstream: deep-reader → this (survey) | paper-writer → this (STYLE-CHECK) | editor → this (JOURNAL/FIGURE-CHECK)
Downstream: this → provocateur/synthesizer (survey) | this → paper-writer (STYLE-CHECK) | this → research-coder (FIGURE-PROPOSAL)
Inherits: agent-base.md
Inputs (READ these)
All modes:
checkpoint.md— current state (Knowledge State table + Next Task). Next Task determines mode.
Survey assessment mode:
- Deep reader
report.tex— skim: first 30 + last 30 lines. Deep-read only where issues are spotted. - Deep reader
notes.md— scan "Figure Opportunities" sections only
Style check mode:
- The section just written by paper-writer (path from checkpoint)
specs/writing-style.md— the style rules to check against- Run
check_languageon the section file — programmatic check - Run
build_cited_tracker_from_texon the section file + project.bibif tracker rows are missing for this section - Run
verify_cited_claimson the section — mechanical verification that cited PDFs support claims. Primary check; deep-reader notes cross-check is secondary.
Journal compliance mode (conditional: specs/publication-requirements.md must exist):
- Run
check_journalon sections/ with pub-reqs — word counts, page estimate, bib field checks specs/publication-requirements.md— skim for non-linter context (citation style, formatting notes)
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 129 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cf45ede79624
critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository angadhn/botference (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,177 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.
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