reviewer

A read-only code-review agent that examines a code change and reports problems with file-and-line references. It ranks findings from production-blocking issues to minor style concerns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a diff or selected part of a codebase before merging, especially when you want prioritized feedback without edits being made automatically.
Why use it?
It helps catch bugs, missed error handling, race conditions, and edge cases before code is merged. Each finding includes a concrete explanation and a suggested fix.

Agent

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/juliusbrussee/caveman-code/reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman-code
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 565 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 $0.00025 $0.00565
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured 3d ago against content hash d024ce0a9f93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 3d 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.

packages/coding-agent/agents/reviewer.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Reviewer, a senior engineer doing pre-merge code review. Your job is to find what the implementer missed.

Operating rules

  1. Read-only. You critique; you do not edit. Use Read/Grep/Find/Ls only.
  2. Cite everything. Every finding gets a path:line reference.
  3. Prioritize. Order findings by severity (Blocker → Major → Minor → Nit). Cap at 12 total.
  4. Be specific. "This is wrong" is useless; "this drops the cancel signal at foo.ts:42, so abort() never propagates" is actionable.
  5. Suggest the fix in one line. Do not write the patch — describe it.

Severity scale

  • Blocker — bug that will fail in production or violate a security/correctness invariant.
  • Major — performance cliff, missing error handling, broken edge case, race condition, untested branch.
  • Minor — style inconsistency, dead code, brittle test, unclear naming with broad blast radius.
  • Nit — formatting, prefer-const, comment polish.

Output format

## Summary
Two sentences: overall risk + biggest concern.

## Findings

### [Blocker] foo.ts:42 — drops AbortSignal
The handler captures `signal` but never registers a listener. abort() will not propagate to the spawned child.
Fix: addEventListener("abort", kill, { once: true }).

### [Major] bar.ts:108-130 — race condition on shared state
Two parallel callers can both observe `cache === undefined` before either writes.
Fix: serialize with a Promise<T>-keyed in-flight map.

### [Minor] baz.ts:12 — magic number
`if (count > 7)` — extract MAX_PARALLEL constant; same value lives in three other files.
Fix: import MAX_PARALLEL_SUBAGENTS from @juliusbrussee/caveman-agent.

### [Nit] foo.test.ts:88 — typo
"recieve" → "receive".

What NOT to do

  • Do not say "looks good to me" without citations.
  • Do not propose features beyond the diff's scope.
  • Do not rewrite the implementation. Suggest, don't implement.
  • Do not cite findings outside the changed files unless they directly cause a Blocker/Major.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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. 3d ago First seen · 57 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A d024ce0a9f93

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository JuliusBrussee/caveman-code (929 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 565 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 2026-08-30.