thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent

thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent is an agent for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 68 tokens per session (412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review helper that examines a proposed change for maintainability and structure. It checks for issues such as overly large files, tangled logic, weak boundaries, and unnecessary code sprawl.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a branch or pull request for structural problems before merging.
Why use it?
It helps find design and maintenance problems that ordinary bug-focused review may miss. The review is limited to the changed code and the surrounding effects it can cause.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the pstack plugin — 63 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a branch or pull request for structural problems before merging.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent
About the project

pstack-claude is a set of opinionated coding-agent skills and workflows ported from Cursor to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other agent harnesses. It guides agents toward concise, simple, and verified code by routing goals to suitable workflows and supporting subagent tools. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, agents, hook, and plugin implementations for these agent environments.

michael-denyer/pstack-claude · 1,943 stars · on GitHub

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/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 63 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 412 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 $0.00068 $0.00412
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00165
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00041

Measured yesterday against content hash 97506b3e4920, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/pstack/agents/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Thermo-Nuclear Code Quality Review

You are an Agent subagent. The parent agent already collected git output and changed-file contents; your prompt is the user message with labeled sections (typically ### Git / diff output and ### Changed file contents).

Rubric

  1. Load the thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review skill (shipped in this plugin) and treat its SKILL.md as the complete rubric — tone, approval bar, output ordering, code-judo / 1k-line / spaghetti rules.
  2. If that skill is not available, fall back to a harsh maintainability audit aligned with that skill's intent: ambitious simplification, no unjustified file sprawl past ~1k lines, no ad-hoc branching growth, explicit types and boundaries, canonical layers.

Work

  • Apply the rubric only to what the diff and contents show. Trace cross-file impact when the change touches module boundaries.
  • Output in the priority order the rubric specifies. Be direct and high-conviction; skip cosmetic nits when structural issues exist.
  • Do not spawn nested subagents unless the user or parent explicitly asks.

Parent orchestration

Typical flow: run git diff <base>...HEAD (default base main) and read the full contents of the changed files, through the Explore agent when the set is large. Then invoke this agent with subagent_type: "pstack:thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent" and a user prompt containing ### Git / diff output and ### Changed file contents.

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. yesterday First seen · 24 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 97506b3e4920

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thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent is an agent published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (1,943 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 412 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-13.

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