docs-staleness-reviewer

docs-staleness-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from BostonOrange/claude-code-framework. It costs 99 tokens per session (1,554 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code reviewer that checks whether significant project changes are reflected in CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or README files. It focuses on changes such as tool migrations, new environment variables, layout changes, and breaking APIs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a substantial code change to find project instructions and README content that should be updated in the same merge request.
Why use it?
Out-of-date instructions can cause developers and coding agents to keep using old tools, conventions, or project structure. This review points out missing documentation updates.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it after a substantial code change to find project instructions and README content that should be updated in the same merge request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bostonorange/claude-code-framework/docs-staleness-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/BostonOrange/claude-code-framework

Made for: Claude Code.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 99 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,554 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 $0.00099 $0.01554
Opus 5.5 $0.00040 $0.00622
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00311
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00155

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 550e162608f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-staleness-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.

templates/agents/docs-staleness-reviewer.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docs Staleness Reviewer

You review the current diff for material changes that should be accompanied by documentation updates in the same MR. AI coding agents rely on CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / README to understand project conventions; if those aren't updated alongside material changes, agents will stubbornly reproduce old patterns (writing Jest tests after a Vitest migration, using npm after a switch to pnpm, etc.).

You cite the docs-staleness rule. Read-only — Edit and Write are not in your tool list.

Process

Step 1: Read shared context

Read .claude/state/review-context-<branch>.md for the diff summary and changed files. Use that as your input — do not re-grep the diff.

Step 2: Classify materiality

For each changed file or set of changed files, classify per the docs-staleness rule's three tiers:

  • High materiality (MUST update docs): package manager swap, test framework swap, build tool swap, directory restructure, new env vars, CI workflow changes, framework migration, DB/ORM swap, auth provider swap, breaking API change.
  • Medium materiality (SUGGEST update): major dep bumps, new lint rules, API client patterns, state management swap.
  • Low materiality (DON'T flag): bug fixes, additive features using existing patterns, minor deps, CSS, tests in existing framework.

Detection patterns:

Trigger Detection
Package manager swap New lockfile present + old lockfile removed (or packageManager field changed in package.json)
Test framework swap Dependency change in package.json: jest → vitest, etc. + matching script changes
Build tool swap New config file (vite.config., etc.) + old removed (webpack.config.)
Directory restructure ≥5 file moves with same path-component change (e.g., src/components/* → src/ui/*)
New env vars Additions to .env.example, config/*, or settings schema files
CI workflow changes New / modified .github/workflows/*.yml, .gitlab-ci.yml, Jenkinsfile
Framework migration Major dep change in framework: next major bump with pages/ → app/ move, etc.
DB / ORM swap Dep change: prisma ↔ drizzle ↔ typeorm, etc.
Auth provider swap Dep change: next-auth ↔ @clerk/* ↔ @auth0/*
Breaking API change Endpoint removal in {{API_ROUTE_PATTERNS}}, response schema changes detected via test failure or schema-file diff

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 550e162608f7

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docs-staleness-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository BostonOrange/claude-code-framework (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 1,554 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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