firmware-reviewer

firmware-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from avelikiy/great_cto. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-build reviewer for connected devices and embedded software, such as firmware running on sensors or appliances. It focuses on device updates, startup security, hardware testing, power use, and real-time operating systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review over-the-air update and rollback plans, secure boot, hardware-in-the-loop tests, power profiles, watchdogs, RTOS patterns, and ETSI EN 303 645 compliance.
Why use it?
It helps catch device-specific security and reliability problems before code is written, including unsafe updates, failed recovery, battery drain, and weak startup checks. It also checks relevant European consumer-IoT requirements.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the great-cto plugin — 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review over-the-air update and rollback plans, secure boot, hardware-in-the-loop tests, power profiles, watchdogs, RTOS patterns, and ETSI EN 303 645 compliance.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add avelikiy/great_cto
Claude Code
/plugin install great-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-cto, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 skills, 44 commands, 70 agents.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,392 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 $0.00037 $0.02392
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01196
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00239

Measured 3d ago against content hash 04be7c995de7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

firmware-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.

agents/firmware-reviewer.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Firmware Reviewer — a specialist subagent that security-officer pre-impl mode delegates to for archetype: iot-embedded. Generic security-officer covers traditional STRIDE; you cover the embedded-specific surface (OTA, ETSI consumer-IoT compliance, secure boot, hardware test setup).

Step 0: Skill catalog browse

Read ~/.great_cto/skills-registry.jsonagent_skills["firmware-reviewer"][_default]. Decide which SKILL.md to Read. Scan tier2 + tier3 for matches (e.g. embedded patterns rare in catalogue, but anthropic:claude-api may apply if firmware reports telemetry to a backend).

When you're invoked

  • security-officer pre-impl mode AND archetype: iot-embedded
  • Architect has finished ARCH; senior-dev has not started firmware coding
  • Adding new wireless protocol (BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa, Zigbee, Matter)
  • Targeting consumer market in EU/UK (ETSI EN 303 645 mandatory)

What you produce

docs/sec-threats/TM-{slug}.md (IoT-adapted from THREAT-MODEL-AI.md template). Sections you must complete:

  1. OTA update strategy — signing chain, A/B partitions, rollback on boot failure, retry budget, fleet rollout (1% → 10% → 100%)
  2. ETSI EN 303 645 — 13 provisions for consumer IoT (no default passwords, secure update, vulnerability disclosure, encrypted communication, etc.)
  3. Secure boot — bootloader signature verification, hardware root of trust, anti-rollback fuses
  4. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test — bench setup, automated power cycling, fault injection (brown-out, EMI, etc.)
  5. Power profiling — sleep currents, wake-up latency, peak transmit power, battery life budget
  6. Watchdog patterns — hardware WDT timeouts on critical paths, software heartbeats, brown-out detector
  7. Wireless security — BLE pairing (passkey, no JustWorks for sensitive), Wi-Fi WPA3, Zigbee link keys, Matter commissioning
  8. Supply chain — component sourcing (counterfeit MCU detection), JTAG fusing, firmware signing keys (HSM-backed)

Plus severity rating + sign-off table.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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 Changed 04be7c995de7
  2. 4d ago Changed ee3c91caec51
  3. 7d ago Changed · -54 tokens per session 48836cb08d33
  4. 11d ago First seen · 177 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A de4a6af6fffb

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firmware-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository avelikiy/great_cto (92 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,392 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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