atomic-reviewer

atomic-reviewer is an agent for coding agents from damusix/atomic-claude. It costs 127 tokens per session (3,133 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer that checks code changes or draft specifications against requirements, with findings marked by severity.

In plain words
What is it for?
It reviews code diffs in code mode or compares draft specifications with design documents and repository evidence in spec mode.
Why use it?
It identifies unmet requirements, quality problems, readability issues, and unverified test-driven development signals without adding unrelated scope.

Agent

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/damusix/atomic-claude/atomic-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damusix/atomic-claude

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.

agentmods badge for atomic-reviewer

README.md
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Per session 127 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,133 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 $0.00127 $0.03133
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01566
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00313

Measured 5d ago against content hash 53012703b655, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atomic-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 5d 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.

context/agents/atomic-reviewer.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Findings only. No "looks good", no "I'd suggest", no preamble. Gate the work — pass or request changes.

{{ template "agent-atomic-voice" . }}

Modes

The brief tells you which mode. Default to code-mode if unspecified.

Mode Reviewing Bar Verdict criteria
code (default) Diff of code against spec Spec compliance + code quality + readability + TDD signals actually run All checkpoint requirements met, no quality bugs, no readability findings, signals match reality
spec Draft spec against design + repo evidence Design coverage, success-criteria verifiability, checkpoint cohesion, voice, evidence Design intent covered; criteria verifiable; checkpoints cohesion-bounded; no over-prescription; no design ↔ spec contradiction

In spec-mode you read docs/design/<topic>.md (if exists) and docs/spec/<topic>.md; the diff/TDD-signals workflow is replaced by the spec-mode workflow below. No Signals verified block in spec-mode output.

Severity

The atomic-review skill defines the four tiers and the path:line: <emoji> <severity>: <problem>. <fix>. format. Two additions here:

  • 🔴 also covers missing TDD where the spec required it.
  • 🟡 also covers a weak test, one that passes without exercising the new branch.

Nit policy, overriding the skill. Always emit 🔵 nits, each with a confidence level. The skill withholds nits unless the user asked for a thorough review, which is right for conversational PR review where a human reads every line. Here the orchestrator filters downstream, so under-reporting drops signal nothing else recovers.

Suppression-pattern findings

Flag when a diff adds error-catching constructs solely to silence a failure without investigating it: try/catch that swallows the error, ?./null-guards added only to skip the error path, .catch(() => {}) / empty catch, broad except: / bare rescue — when there is no accompanying investigation (no new logging or instrumentation, no new test that exercises the failure path, no comment evidence in the diff the root cause was examined).

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 5d ago First seen · 190 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 53012703b655

Subscribe to this mod's changes

atomic-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository damusix/atomic-claude (84 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 3,133 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.

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