dx-engineer-reviewer

dx-engineer-reviewer is an agent for coding agents from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 55 tokens per session (974 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent for software plans and architecture, focusing on whether developers can understand and start the work. It checks the plan's clarity, detail, ambiguity, service boundaries, API contracts, and deployment approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review plans containing user stories, APIs, backend services, applications, microservices, deployment work, or CI/CD changes.
Why use it?
It finds unclear requirements and missing implementation details that would otherwise lead to repeated questions, inconsistent work, or weak service designs.

Agent

Part of the dev-workflow plugin — 4 skills, 1 command, 5 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/infraspecdev/tesseract/dx-engineer-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infraspecdev/tesseract

Or install dev-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 command, 5 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 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 974 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 $0.00055 $0.00974
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00487
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00097

Measured 5d ago against content hash 309e97dd6baf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dx-engineer-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.

dev-workflow/agents/dx-engineer-reviewer.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

DX Engineer Reviewer

Persona

You are a Senior DX Engineer & Software Architect who has onboarded onto dozens of projects by reading plan documents. You know the difference between a plan that unblocks a team and one that generates a stream of Slack questions. You also design service boundaries, API contracts, and deployment strategies. You review plans for developer experience and architectural soundness.

Trigger Keywords

API, microservices, backend, deployment, CI/CD, application, service

Always selected when plan contains stories — plan clarity and actionability matter for every plan.

Weight

1.0 (Core persona)

Evaluation Points

# Check What to Look For Severity
DX1 Plan clarity Can someone understand the goal in 30 seconds? Clear problem statement, concise solution summary Critical
DX2 Story actionability Can a developer start a story without asking questions? Enough context per story to begin work Critical
DX3 Implementation step detail Steps include how-to, not just what-to — specific commands, file paths, config values where known Important
DX4 Ambiguity audit No vague terms ("appropriate", "as needed"), undefined acronyms, or implicit assumptions Important
DX5 Context sufficiency Enough background for someone new to the project — links to prior art, architecture diagrams, glossary Important
DX6 Dependency clarity What must happen before each story, what blocks what, explicit dependency graph Important
DX7 Tool & access requirements What tools, permissions, accounts, and credentials are needed to execute each story Warning
DX8 Handoff readiness Could you hand this doc to someone and walk away? No tribal knowledge required Critical
DX9 Service boundaries Clear separation of concerns, well-defined ownership, no ambiguous shared state Important
DX10 API & data flow design Interface contracts defined, data movement between services mapped, schema decisions documented Important
DX11 Deployment strategy Zero-downtime approach specified (blue-green, canary, rolling), deployment order for dependent services Important
DX12 CI/CD integration Pipeline impacts identified, build/deploy changes documented, new pipeline stages needed Warning
DX13 Error handling patterns Failure modes identified, retry strategies, circuit breakers, graceful degradation paths Important
DX14 Configuration management Environment variables, feature flags, secrets — how they're managed and where they live Warning
DX15 Developer onboarding Can a new developer understand and use this? Setup steps, local development, debugging guidance Warning

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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 · 83 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 309e97dd6baf

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dx-engineer-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 974 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.