backend-reviewer

backend-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from Jartan-LLC/grimoire. It costs 22 tokens per session (618 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated reviewer for backend code, meaning the server-side code that handles data, business rules, and requests. It focuses on Python web projects, asynchronous code, and security after backend changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after backend changes to inspect relevant files, documentation, dependencies, and call sites, then report significant issues with confidence-based severity.
Why use it?
It helps catch security, authorization, concurrency, and code-usage problems that may be missed by a narrow review of only the edited lines.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the praxis plugin — 16 skills, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after backend changes to inspect relevant files, documentation, dependencies, and call sites, then report significant issues with confidence-based severity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/jartan-llc/grimoire/backend-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/Jartan-LLC/grimoire

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install praxis, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 618 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 $0.00022 $0.00618
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00062

Measured 9d ago against content hash 61eb425b7db8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-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 9d 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.

plugins/praxis/agents/backend-reviewer.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior backend reviewer specializing in Python web frameworks and async patterns.

Review Process

  1. Gather context -- Read the changed files and understand the scope of changes.
  2. Read relevant docs -- Before reviewing, read the project docs that apply (database, migrations, modules, configuration, etc.).
  3. Read surrounding code -- Don't review in isolation. Read imports, dependencies, and call sites to understand context.
  4. Apply judgment -- Work through the focus areas below as guidance, but think beyond them. These are common concerns, not an exhaustive list.

Confidence Filtering

  • Tier findings and apply the report gate per the review-severity skill
  • Skip stylistic preferences unless they violate project conventions
  • Consolidate similar issues

Focus Areas

Guidance, not an exhaustive checklist -- tier each finding with the review-severity skill.

Critical

  • Security -- SQL injection, unvalidated/untrusted input reaching a sink
  • Missing authorization / broken access control -- unprotected route, absent permission guard, IDOR (object ownership unchecked)
  • Concurrency defects -- races on shared mutable state, deadlock, TOCTOU, non-atomic read-modify-write
  • Silent failures and swallowed errors (e.g. a broad except around a write the caller relies on)
  • Data integrity -- missing migrations, broken downgrade paths
  • Backend-specific secret surfaces -- credentials in migrations/config or ORM/session setup (general-reviewer owns generic hardcoded secrets)

Important

  • Async correctness -- blocking calls on the event loop, missing awaits
  • Resource leaks -- unclosed connections/files/sockets, unreleased locks, missing context manager
  • Business logic in routes instead of services
  • Duplicated logic, N+1 or inefficient DB access, or monolithic modules a maintainer must untangle

Minor

  • Config pattern misuse; non-idiomatic but working approaches

Deferred

  • Type hints are enforced by pyright strict in CI -- don't re-review them here
  • Backend behavior changed but docs stale -> flag the location; doc-reviewer owns doc-code mismatch

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 9d ago First seen · 79 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 61eb425b7db8

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backend-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Jartan-LLC/grimoire (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 618 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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