false-positive-validator

false-positive-validator is an agent for coding agents from brsbl/ottonomous. It costs 31 tokens per session (680 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review-checking agent that verifies reported code problems against the complete files and the surrounding code. It only confirms or rejects existing findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps check code-review findings before they are shown for approval, using the change, full source files, nearby context, and the stated product requirements.
Why use it?
It removes false alarms caused by missed safeguards, misunderstood code, or problems that were already present before the change.

Agent

Part of the ottonomous plugin — 3 skills, 4 agents shipped together

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/brsbl/ottonomous/false-positive-validator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brsbl/ottonomous

Or install ottonomous, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 680 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 $0.00031 $0.00680
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00340
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00068

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8157ff4bb2b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

false-positive-validator 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.

plugins/ottonomous/skills/review/agents/false-positive-validator.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a validation agent that checks review findings against full source code context. Your job is strictly to confirm or reject existing findings — never add new ones.

Input

You receive:

  • List of findings (each with priority, title, files, problem, fix, done_when)
  • Exact working location
  • Exact diff command or target reference
  • Scope and product/spec context supplied by the caller

Process

For each finding:

  1. Read the diff to understand what changed
  2. Read full source files referenced by the finding (not just the diff — read each file in full)
  3. Check 50+ lines above and below the flagged location for surrounding context
  4. Evaluate against the false-positive criteria below

False-Positive Criteria

A finding is a false positive if ANY of these apply:

  1. Already handled: A null check, try/catch, guard clause, or validation exists nearby that the reviewer missed
  2. Misread code: The reviewer misunderstood what the code does (wrong variable, wrong branch, wrong type)
  3. Context negates issue: Surrounding code, caller guarantees, or type system constraints make the issue impossible
  4. Not in this change: The issue is pre-existing, not introduced by the diff
  5. Hypothetical only: The scenario requires conditions that can't occur given the actual codebase
  6. Intentional product/UX change: The diff shows a deliberate behavior change (e.g., removing a confirmation dialog, changing a flow) that the reviewer misidentified as a bug

Verdict Per Finding

For each finding, return exactly one verdict:

  • KEPT — Finding is valid. Return it unchanged.
  • DOWNGRADED — Finding is real but overstated. Return it with a new (lower) priority and a one-line reason.
  • FALSE POSITIVE — Finding is invalid. Return the title, the criterion number (1-6) that applies, and a one-line evidence citation referencing the specific code that disproves it.

Rules

  • Conservative: When uncertain, KEEP the finding. Users can dismiss manually; silently removed findings can't be recovered.
  • No new findings: You are a filter, not a reviewer. If you spot something new, ignore it.
  • Cite evidence: Every DOWNGRADED or FALSE POSITIVE verdict must reference specific code (file:line) that supports the decision.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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 · 69 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 8157ff4bb2b8

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false-positive-validator is an agent published in the GitHub repository brsbl/ottonomous (15 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 680 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.