atomic-reviewer

atomic-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from damusix/atomic-claude. It costs 194 tokens per session (3,391 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 for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit It reviews code diffs in code mode or compares draft specifications with design documents and repository evidence in spec mode.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/damusix/atomic-claude/atomic-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/damusix/atomic-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 194 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,391 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 $0.00194 $0.03391
Opus 5.5 $0.00078 $0.01356
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00039 $0.00678
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00339

Measured 28d ago against content hash 0e5c38aa4514, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 28d 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 · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 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 · 199 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. 28d ago Changed · +6 lines · +13 tokens per session 0e5c38aa4514
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines · +54 tokens per session 9aacd92c1818
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 190 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 53012703b655

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atomic-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository damusix/atomic-claude (114 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 194 tokens to every session and 3,391 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-30.

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