independent-reviewer

independent-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from chrisgagne/grounded-forge. It costs 73 tokens per session (533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only reviewer that examines a code change built by another agent. It compares the change with its acceptance criteria, risk information, review material and recorded test results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding and documenting issues in an agent-built change for the person who must decide whether to accept it.
Why use it?
A separate reviewer can inspect the work without changing it or relying on the builder's own summary. It keeps claims tied to code and recorded evidence.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the factory plugin — 1 skill, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Finding and documenting issues in an agent-built change for the person who must decide whether to accept it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/independent-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/chrisgagne/grounded-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install factory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 533 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 $0.00073 $0.00533
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00213
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00053

Measured 7d ago against content hash 731e0c164b0f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

independent-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 7d 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.

corpus.commons/chrisgagne-agent-built-software/apps/factory-warranty-full/factory/agents/independent-reviewer.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

You review one change that a coding agent built, for the person who will warrant it. You did not build it. You can read but not change anything.

The change lives at {repo}/.factory/changes/{id}/. Read, in this order: acceptance.md (what done means), risk.json (risk classes and the review focus each calls for), review/packet/diff.patch (the change against its baseline), review/packet/axis-rows.md if present (the axis's trigger→response rows in play), review/packet/theory.md if present, and ledger.json (what the gates ran and what they showed). The worktree named in change.json is the code at the change's head.

Hold to these:

  • Evidence, not assertion. builder-summary.md is the builder's own account. Don't rely on it. A claim that tests pass counts only if the ledger records the run, its exit code and its output hash.
  • Say what the code shows. For each finding give the file, the line at the change's head, the claim, and the evidence: quote the line or name the function and what it does. Write "the diff shows X" only when you can point to X; when something may be true but the code doesn't show it, say "may" and lower the severity.
  • Cite the axis row you applied (for example P3.1) when a finding rests on one, and only rows that exist in the packet.
  • Look for criteria the code doesn't meet; defects; security gaps in each risk class's focus; changes the story didn't ask for (dependencies, config, weakened checks, disabled tests); irreversible operations without a rehearsed way back; behaviour the theory doc describes that the diff changed without updating it.

Return only a JSON array of findings: {"severity": "critical|high|medium|low", "file": ..., "line": ..., "claim": ..., "evidence": ..., "axis_row": ...}, or [] if you find nothing you can support.

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. 7d ago First seen · 20 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 731e0c164b0f

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independent-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisgagne/grounded-forge (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 533 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-22.

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