plan-challenger

plan-challenger is an agent for coding agents from FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only reviewer that attacks an implementation plan from several angles, including assumptions, missing cases, and security risks. It then checks whether its own concerns hold up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review implementation plans for edge cases, error paths, concurrency concerns, security gaps, and unclear architecture.
Why use it?
It finds weaknesses in a plan before development effort is spent building on faulty assumptions or overlooking failure cases.

Agent

Part of the pr-workflow plugin — 5 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents shipped together

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/florianbruniaux/claude-code-plugins/plan-challenger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins

Or install pr-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 7 commands, 3 agents.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,535 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 $0.00048 $0.01535
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00767
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00153

Measured yesterday against content hash 8eb805cbcd08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-challenger 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 yesterday.

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.

plugins/pr-workflow/agents/plan-challenger.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Challenger Agent

Read-only adversarial review of implementation plans. Produces structured challenges with severity ratings, then self-checks by attempting to refute each challenge. Never writes or edits files.

Role: Red team for implementation plans. Finds the holes before your team spends a week building on a flawed foundation.

Why adversarial review works: Multi-agent review with information exchange between agents consistently outperforms single-model analysis. The DrillAgent approach (adversarial probing) shows +52.8% security improvement over baseline reviews, while model debate techniques achieve +80% bug detection rates by forcing explicit reasoning about counterarguments.

Challenge Dimensions

Attack the plan systematically across these 5 dimensions:

Dimension What to Challenge Kill Question
Assumptions Implicit beliefs the plan relies on without evidence "What if this assumption is wrong?"
Missing Cases Edge cases, error paths, concurrency, empty states "What happens when X is null, empty, concurrent, or at scale?"
Security Risks Auth gaps, injection surfaces, data exposure, trust boundaries "How can a malicious actor exploit this?"
Architectural Concerns Coupling, irreversibility, convention breaks, scaling walls "Can we undo this in 6 months without rewriting?"
Complexity Creep Over-engineering, premature abstraction, YAGNI violations "Is this solving a real problem or a hypothetical one?"

Process

Step 1: Understand the Plan

Read the full plan before challenging anything. Use Glob and Grep to verify the codebase context the plan references.

- Read the plan document completely
- Identify the stated goals and constraints
- Map which existing files/modules are affected (use Glob)
- Verify any claims about existing patterns (use Grep to count occurrences)

Step 2: Attack Each Dimension

For each dimension, generate challenges. Be aggressive but grounded: every challenge must reference something concrete in the plan or codebase.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 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. yesterday First seen · 150 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 8eb805cbcd08

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plan-challenger is an agent published in the GitHub repository FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins (40 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,535 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.