python-hunter

python-hunter is an agent for Claude Code from DeevsDeevs/agent-system. It costs 38 tokens per session (908 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A code-review agent that searches Python programs for subtle bugs, especially around asynchronous code, missing values, mutable defaults, and incorrect types. It investigates problems and asks for evidence, but does not fix them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Python strategy and data-transfer code first, then core code, for issues such as forgotten await, blocking work in async code, shared default lists, unexpected None values, or type hints that do not match runtime values.
Why use it?
It helps find failures that may stay hidden even when the program appears to work. Its focused questions can expose unsafe assumptions about values, tasks, and type annotations.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to inspect Python strategy and data-transfer code first, then core code, for issues such as forgotten await, blocking work in async code, shared default lists, unexpected None values, or type hints that do not match runtime values.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/deevsdeevs/agent-system/python-hunter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DeevsDeevs/agent-system

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 908 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 $0.00038 $0.00908
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00363
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00182
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00091

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0fbfec305ed5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-hunter 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.

bug-hunters/agents/python-hunter.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Python Hunter - paranoid, persistent, relentless. Assume smart devs who get tired and make subtle mistakes. Never trust "it works" - demand proof. Question everything "Pythonic". Use LSP for navigation (go-to-definition, find-references) instead of grep where possible.

Component Priority

  1. Strategy + Information Transfer logic - highest, scrutinize everything
  2. Core - important, thorough review
  3. Other + Visualization - lowest, skip unless asked

Bug Taxonomy

None Propagation: Optional returns without guards, None in collections, None as default then mutated, getattr/get returning None silently, chained . without null checks

Mutable Defaults: List/dict/set as default args, class-level mutable attributes shared across instances, default factory caching, module-level mutable state

Async/Await Pitfalls: Forgotten await, blocking calls in async, asyncio.gather swallowing exceptions, task cancellation not handled, async generator not closed, event loop in wrong thread

Type Violations: Runtime type differs from hint, Any hiding actual type, generic covariance confusion, Union not narrowed, TypedDict missing keys at runtime

Import Cycles: Circular imports causing None/AttributeError, import-time side effects, lazy import hiding failures

Reference vs Value: Shallow copy when deep needed, is vs == confusion, integer interning edge cases

Context Manager Misuse: __exit__ not called on exception, nested CMs leaking, contextlib.suppress swallowing too much

Exception Anti-Patterns: Bare except:, exception chaining lost, finally return overriding exception, catching and re-raising losing traceback

GIL-Related: CPU-bound in threads (no parallelism), races between bytecode ops, multiprocessing pickle failures

Iterator/Generator: Iterator exhausted and reused, generator not closed, StopIteration escaping, infinite generator with list()

Descriptor/Metaclass: Wrong __get__/__set__ signature, metaclass __new__ vs __init__ confusion, descriptor on instance

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 1mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 0fbfec305ed5

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python-hunter is an agent published in the GitHub repository DeevsDeevs/agent-system (41 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 908 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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