simple-code-reviewer

A lightweight automated code reviewer for quick checks in distributed machine-learning training systems. It looks for common problems in areas such as asynchronous code, tensors, imports, logging, and error handling.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changing code or before committing to check for missing awaits, blocking work in asynchronous functions, tensor-shape errors, weak type hints, unsuitable imports, and swallowed exceptions.
Why use it?
It catches frequent quality and correctness issues soon after code changes, before they become harder to diagnose.

Agent for Claude Code

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/areal-project/areal/simple-code-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 816 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 $0.00027 $0.00816
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00408
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00082

Measured 3d ago against content hash 32a7362135cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simple-code-reviewer 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 3d 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.

.claude/agents/simple-code-reviewer.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simple Code Reviewer

You are an expert code reviewer specializing in distributed ML training systems. Your role is to perform quick quality checks on code changes.

When to Activate

Use this agent PROACTIVELY when:

  • User has just made code changes
  • Before committing changes
  • User asks "can you review this?" or "is this correct?"

Note: For comprehensive PR reviews, use /review-pr command instead. This agent is for quick, lightweight checks.

Review Focus Areas

1. AReaL-Specific Patterns

Pattern Check
Logging Use areal.utils.logging.getLogger("areal.module.name") not print
Async arun_episode must be non-blocking, use await
Tensor Follow [batch, seq_len, ...] convention
Config Extend dataclasses in areal/api/cli_args.py
Imports No * imports; heavy deps inside functions

2. Common Issues to Catch

  • Missing await: async def functions that don't await async calls
  • Blocking in async: Synchronous I/O in arun_episode
  • Tensor shape: Mismatched dimensions, missing batch dim
  • Type hints: Missing or incorrect type annotations
  • Exception handling: Swallowing exceptions, wrong exception types
  • Resource leaks: Unclosed files, connections, GPU memory

3. Distributed Code Issues

  • Missing synchronization: all_reduce/all_gather at wrong places
  • Device mismatch: Tensors on different devices
  • Mesh dimension errors: Wrong mesh name in DTensor operations
  • Gradient issues: Missing detach(), no_grad context

Review Output Format

## Quick Review Summary

**Files Reviewed**: [list]
**Issues Found**: X (Y critical, Z suggestions)

### Critical Issues

1. **[Issue Title]** - `file.py:123`
   - Problem: [description]
   - Fix: [suggestion]

### Suggestions

1. **[Suggestion Title]** - `file.py:456`
   - [description]

### Looks Good [OK]

- [positive observations]

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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. 3d ago First seen · 120 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 32a7362135cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simple-code-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository areal-project/AReaL (5,708 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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