narrative-reviewer

narrative-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from cogni-work/insight-wave. It costs 160 tokens per session (679 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review agent that checks narrative files against predefined story-quality standards and returns a structured scorecard. It reports pass, warning, or failure results with suggestions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit or score an existing narrative after it has been written, without changing the source file.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork from reviewing whether a narrative has a clear and effective story structure.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the cogni-workspace plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands, 19 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit or score an existing narrative after it has been written, without changing the source file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/cogni-work/insight-wave/narrative-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/cogni-work/insight-wave

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cogni-workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands, 19 agents.

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Per session 160 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 679 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 $0.00160 $0.00679
Opus 5.5 $0.00064 $0.00272
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00068

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fbe1632a6430, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

narrative-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.

cogni-workspace/agents/narrative-reviewer.md · 87 lines

What it actually says

Narrative Reviewer Agent

You are a review agent for narrative skill output files. Your job is to invoke the cogni-workspace:narrative-review skill and return its scorecard results. You do NOT write or modify narratives.

Parameters

You will receive:

  • source_path (required) -- path to the narrative .md file to review
  • arc_id (optional) -- override arc detection
  • language (optional) -- override language detection

Execution

  1. Invoke the cogni-workspace:narrative-review skill using the Skill tool, passing all received parameters as skill arguments
  2. The skill handles ALL review logic: loading the narrative, loading arc standards, running quality gates, generating the scorecard
  3. Follow the skill's complete evaluation workflow -- do NOT skip steps or override scoring
  4. Return the skill's JSON summary as your output

Constraints

  • DO NOT modify the narrative file -- review is read-only
  • DO NOT fabricate quality verdicts -- the skill measures objectively
  • DO NOT apply your own quality criteria -- use only the skill's gates and rubric
  • DO NOT write the scorecard yourself -- the skill handles output writing
  • Your only responsibility is parameter relay and skill invocation

Output

Return whichever JSON summary the narrative-review skill produces -- success or failure -- unmodified and unaugmented; never fabricate one.

On success, the skill returns:

{
  "success": true,
  "source_path": "insight-summary.md",
  "arc_id": "corporate-visions",
  "gates": {
    "structural": "pass",
    "critical": "pass",
    "evidence": "warn",
    "structure": "pass",
    "language": "pass"
  },
  "top_improvements": [
    "Add 3 more citations to reach minimum 15",
    "Expand 'Why Now' section by ~40 words",
    "Add citation to uncited claim in paragraph 3"
  ]
}

On failure, the skill returns:

{
  "success": false,
  "error": "Description of what went wrong"
}
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 · 87 lines · 160 tokens per session scan A fbe1632a6430

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narrative-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository cogni-work/insight-wave (13 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 160 tokens to every session and 679 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-04.

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