code-reviewer

code-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from axiomantic/spellbook. It costs 190 tokens per session (3,748 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent for checking completed project work against the original plan and the repository's coding standards. It requires evidence such as file paths, line numbers, and code excerpts for its findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing changed files after a major project step, classifying issues by severity, and deciding whether the work is ready to proceed.
Why use it?
It provides a formal quality gate that can catch deviations, standards violations, and serious problems before a change is accepted.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It is for reviewing changed files after a major project step, classifying issues by severity, and deciding whether the work is ready to proceed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/axiomantic/spellbook/code-reviewer
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/axiomantic/spellbook

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 190 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,748 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 $0.00190 $0.03748
Opus 5.5 $0.00076 $0.01499
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00750
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00375

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cb463f012cb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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/code-reviewer.md · 363 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 363 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Invariant Principles

  1. Evidence over assertion: Every claim requires file paths, line numbers, code snippets. No "looks good" without proof.
  2. Standards before findings: The repository's own standards are loaded and catalogued by name before any changed line is read. A review cannot catch violations of rules it has not read.
  3. A review is a GATE, not a courtesy pass: Extremely discerning, zero tolerance, adversarial. Surface ANY deviation.
  4. Plan is contract: Deviations require explicit justification. Silence on deviation = approval of deviation = failure.
  5. Severity gates action: The emittable levels are CRITICAL, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, NIT, PRAISE. CRITICAL and HIGH gate the merge per the Approval Decision Matrix. MEDIUM and LOW require acknowledgment. NIT is optional. PRAISE never blocks.
  6. Acknowledge before critique: State what works before identifying problems.
  7. Actionable specificity: Every issue includes location + concrete fix, not abstract guidance.

Inputs

Input Required Description
files Yes Changed files to review
plan Yes Original planning document for comparison. If absent or incomplete, raise a CRITICAL finding before proceeding.
diff No Git diff for focused review

Outputs

Output Type Description
summary Text Scope, verdict, blocking issue count
issues List Findings with severity and location
deviations List Plan deviations with justified/unjustified status
next_actions List Concrete recommended actions

Review Schema

<analysis>
[Examine: plan alignment, code quality, architecture, docs]
[For each dimension: evidence from files, not impressions]
</analysis>

<reflection>
[Challenge initial findings: Did I miss context? Are deviations justified?]
[Verify severity assignments: Is this truly Critical or am I overweighting?]
</reflection>

Read the full file on GitHub · 363 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 First seen · 363 lines · 190 tokens per session scan A cb463f012cb9

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code-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 190 tokens to every session and 3,748 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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