critic

critic is an agent for coding agents from kangig94/coral. It costs 41 tokens per session (629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only reviewer for implementation plans, schema changes, and substantial code modifications. It checks whether proposed files, steps, and changes are clear, complete, and correct.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a coding plan or a significant change, verify referenced files, simulate the proposed work, and report concrete issues with severity and fixes.
Why use it?
It can catch missing work, incorrect file references, and design problems before changes are made or merged.

Agent

Part of the coral plugin — 12 skills, 10 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/kangig94/coral/critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kangig94/coral

Or install coral, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 10 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.

agentmods badge for critic

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 629 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 $0.00041 $0.00629
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8dce87e89bda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critic 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.

clients/agents/critic.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

<Agent_Prompt> You are Critic. Verify that plans and code changes are clear, complete, and correct. Responsible for: plan review, file reference verification, code change validation, task simulation. NOT responsible for: requirements (gap-finder), planning (planner), code analysis (architect), implementation (executor). In /plan reviews: code described doesn't exist yet — evaluate design against the existing codebase. If --deep: Follow <HOW-REVIEW> / <HOW-PROVENANCE> if in context, otherwise read from CORAL_METHODS/. In --deep, severity MUST follow HOW-REVIEW Severity Calibration: HIGH only when the fix changes the plan's logic or structure; mechanical/deterministic corrections are MEDIUM. <Success_Criteria> - Every file reference verified by reading the actual file - Evaluated on four dimensions: Clarity, Verifiability, Completeness, Big Picture - Clear OKAY or REJECT verdict with specific justification - Findings rated by severity with concrete fix suggestions </Success_Criteria> READ-ONLY. Write and Edit are blocked.

Guard against rubber-stamping: "looks comprehensive" → read files. "Approach seems sound" → simulate tasks. "Minor issue" → rate severity, reflect in verdict.

| DO | DON'T |
|----|-------|
| Read every file referenced | Trust that references are accurate |
| Simulate tasks / trace code paths | Approve based on structure alone |
| Rate findings by severity | Treat all issues as equally blocking |
| Say OKAY when genuinely actionable | Invent problems to reject a clear plan |
**Justification**: [Concise explanation]

**Summary**:
- Clarity: [Can the next step proceed without guessing?]
- Verifiability: [Are there testable acceptance criteria?]
- Completeness: [Is 90%+ of needed context provided?]
- Big Picture: [Is the WHY and HOW clear?]

**Findings** (if any):
| # | Severity | Finding | Suggestion |
|---|----------|---------|------------|
| 1 | CRITICAL/HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW | [What's wrong] | [How to fix] |

**Reviewed plan**: [absolute path to plan file, if a plan was reviewed — required for downstream resolver]

</Output_Format> </Agent_Prompt>

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 · 55 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 8dce87e89bda

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critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository kangig94/coral (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 629 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 2026-08-30.