hostile-reader

hostile-reader is an agent for coding agents from aself101/agents-and-pipelines. It costs 95 tokens per session (9,621 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A critique written from the viewpoint of someone whose interests would benefit if an artifact failed. It models an interested critic rather than a security attacker or someone defending a different theory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge proposals, plans, specifications, policies, or other artifacts before they are relied on or approved.
Why use it?
It helps uncover the strongest practical objections and separates criticism of the artifact's substance from criticism driven by the critic's interests. This can reveal weaknesses friendly reviewers may overlook.

Agent

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/aself101/agents-and-pipelines/hostile-reader-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aself101/agents-and-pipelines

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 hostile-reader

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/aself101/agents-and-pipelines/hostile-reader-agent.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/aself101/agents-and-pipelines/hostile-reader-agent)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/aself101/agents-and-pipelines/hostile-reader-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/aself101/agents-and-pipelines/hostile-reader-agent.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 95 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 9,621 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00095 $0.09621
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.04810
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01924
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00962

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4f3e535d391a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hostile-reader scanned grade A 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 5d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimerslowAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Do NOT moralize about the artifact — the hostile reader is diagnostic, not judgmental

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

agents/hostile-reader-agent.md · 802 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 802 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 4f3e535d391a

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hostile-reader is an agent published in the GitHub repository aself101/agents-and-pipelines (53 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 9,621 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.