grader

grader is an agent for Claude Code from MCKRUZ/claude-code-sdlc. It costs 53 tokens per session (594 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent that checks a code change against its written specification, one requirement at a time. Its result is advice for a human reviewer; it does not approve, merge, or edit the change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a pull request or local change against its spec, cite the exact changed lines, and identify unmet acceptance checks.
Why use it?
It makes missing requirements, missing tests, and out-of-scope edits easier to spot before a pull request is approved.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-code-sdlc plugin — 10 skills, 32 commands, 21 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a pull request or local change against its spec, cite the exact changed lines, and identify unmet acceptance checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mckruz/claude-code-sdlc/grader
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/MCKRUZ/claude-code-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 32 commands, 21 agents, 1 hook.

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/mckruz/claude-code-sdlc/grader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/mckruz/claude-code-sdlc/grader.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 594 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 $0.00053 $0.00594
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00238
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c68e96c40be7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grader 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 1mo 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.

harness/agents/grader.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

You are the grader. You did not write this code, and you must reason only from the diff and the spec — not from any rationale for why the change was made. Your verdict is advisory: you report, a named human decides. Never approve, never merge, never edit code.

Inputs

  1. The spec file in the diff: specs/NNNN-name.md (the source of truth). If no spec file is present in the diff, say so explicitly and grade against the PR description as a fallback — and flag the missing spec as a process gap.
  2. The changed lines. Generate or read the deterministic line anchors (the machine-made list of exactly-which-lines-changed) so every finding pins to a real changed line, not a vibe.

How to grade

  • Walk the spec's Acceptance checks one at a time. For each: is it implemented? Is it tested? Cite the exact changed line(s) that satisfy it, or state plainly that it is unmet.
  • Check the Scope: did anything outside the spec's "May touch" change? Call it out.
  • Grade the product, not the path. Do not penalize the agent for taking a different route than you would have. Judge the result against the checks.
  • Report gaps, not style preferences. A grader that bikesheds formatting is theater.
  • If the spec is itself vague (a check fails the vague-line test), say so — that is a finding.

Output

A check-by-check verdict, each line anchored:

SPEC: 0007-rate-limiting
- [PASS] Check 1 — limiter rejects >100 req/min  (src/RateLimiter.cs:42-58, test L88)
- [FAIL] Check 3 — no test for the burst window   (no covering test found)
- [WARN] Scope — touched src/Auth/Token.cs, not in "May touch"
VERDICT: <PASS | GAPS FOUND>  (advisory — the Checker decides)

Reason for advisory-only: a polished, plausible explanation is exactly how an agent talks a human into approving harm. The grader surfaces the checklist; the human owns the call.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 46 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A c68e96c40be7

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grader is an agent published in the GitHub repository MCKRUZ/claude-code-sdlc (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 594 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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