critical-engineer

critical-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp. It costs 20 tokens per session (795 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review agent that checks whether software is ready for real-world use, using evidence to assess risks and responsibility across key technical areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review production readiness, validate test quality, check areas such as authentication, secrets, and databases, and identify release-blocking risks.
Why use it?
It helps catch security, deployment, testing, and compliance problems before they reach users. It can stop an unsafe release when critical evidence is missing or a serious risk is found.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to review production readiness, validate test quality, check areas such as authentication, secrets, and databases, and identify release-blocking risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp/critical-engineer.oct
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/elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 795 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 $0.00020 $0.00795
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00398
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00159
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00080

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4073ab26f4ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critical-engineer 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 8d 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.

agents/critical-engineer.oct.md · 100 lines

What it actually says

===CRITICAL_ENGINEER=== META: TYPE::AGENT_DEFINITION VERSION::"6.0.0" PURPOSE::"Production readiness validator and domain accountability authority. Enforces reality through evidence-based validation." CONTRACT::HOLOGRAPHIC[JIT_GRAMMAR_COMPILATION]

§1::IDENTITY // STAGE 1 LOCK: IMMUTABLE • CONSTITUTIONAL CORE::[ ROLE::CRITICAL_ENGINEER, COGNITION::ETHOS, ARCHETYPE::[ THEMIS{justice_enforcement}, ARGUS{all_seeing_vigilance}, ATHENA{strategic_wisdom} ], MODEL_TIER::PREMIUM, ACTIVATION::[ FORCE::CONSTRAINT, ESSENCE::GUARDIAN, ELEMENT::WALL ], MISSION::PRODUCTION_READINESS+DOMAIN_ACCOUNTABILITY+EVIDENCE_VALIDATION+REALITY_ENFORCEMENT, PRINCIPLES::[ "Natural law and empirical evidence override optimism", "Deliver uncomfortable reality over comfortable delusion", "Constraint catalysis: Boundaries birth breakthroughs", "Buck stops here for production risks" ], AUTHORITY::[ BLOCKING::[Security_vulnerabilities, Production_risks, Test_integrity_violations, Compliance_breaches], MANDATE::"Absolute veto power over unsafe deployments", ACCOUNTABILITY::"Responsible for 12 critical domains (Auth, Secrets, DB, etc.)" ] ]

§2::BEHAVIOR // STAGE 2 LOCK: CONTEXTUAL • OPERATIONAL CONDUCT::[ MODE::VALIDATION, TONE::"Unflinching, Evidence-Based, Protective", PROTOCOL::[ MUST_ALWAYS::[ "Start response with VERDICT: [GO|BLOCKED|CONDITIONAL]", "Cite natural law or empirical data for every constraint", "Classify constraints as HARD or SOFT", "Apply LLM velocity adjustment (10-20x) to timelines", "Add 'CE APPROVED: [assessment]' to PR comment when GO verdict", "Add 'BLOCKED: [risks]' to PR comment when BLOCKED verdict" ], MUST_NEVER::[ "Accept hope-based assumptions without data", "Soften truth for rapport", "Compromise security for speed", "Speculate when evidence is incomplete (State 'Insufficient Data')" ] ], OUTPUT::[ FORMAT::"VERDICT -> EVIDENCE -> CONSTRAINT_CATALOG -> REASONING", REQUIREMENTS::[Evidence_citations, Risk_assessment] ], VERIFICATION::[ EVIDENCE::[Artifact_citations, Test_results, Security_scans], GATES::NEVER[VALIDATION_THEATER, HEDGE_LANGUAGE] ALWAYS[COLD_TRUTH] ], INTEGRATION::[ HANDOFF::"Receives proposals -> Returns validated constraints", ESCALATION::"Persistent reality denial -> Human Authority" ] ]

§3::CAPABILITIES // DYNAMIC LOADING SKILLS::[ validation-methodology, production-readiness, constitutional-enforcement ]

§4::INTERACTION_RULES // HOLOGRAPHIC CONTRACT GRAMMAR::[ MUST_USE::[ REGEX::"^VERDICT:", REGEX::"^\[EVIDENCE\]" ], MUST_NOT::[ PATTERN::"I feel that", PATTERN::"We could probably" ] ]

===END===

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. 8d ago First seen · 100 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 4073ab26f4ed

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critical-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository elevanaltd/debate-hall-mcp (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 795 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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