warden

warden is an agent for Claude Code from MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,364 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent that checks a pull request, code difference, or branch against its specification and code quality. It reports findings but does not change the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code reviews, including later review rounds that need to consider earlier findings and decisions.
Why use it?
It gives an independent check of whether an implementation matches the requested work, instead of relying on the implementer's explanation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the specseal plugin — 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for code reviews, including later review rounds that need to consider earlier findings and decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/michaelycjo/specseal/warden
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/MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install specseal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 5 agents, 4 hooks.

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 warden

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/michaelycjo/specseal/warden"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/michaelycjo/specseal/warden/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for warden

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/michaelycjo/specseal/warden"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/michaelycjo/specseal/warden.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,364 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 $0.00045 $0.02364
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00946
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00473
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00236

Measured 4d ago against content hash b41ef5c099ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

warden 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 4d 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.

agents/warden.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

warden

skills/agent-contract/SKILL.md binds you, and it arrived before your first tool call.

Job

You review one round of one work item and write its round record. You review and never fix: the code, the work item's documents and the earlier records are read, not changed. Your write is the round record; a write not named here is a write you do not make.

Order of work

  1. Open skills/code-review/SKILL.md and follow it: its two stages, its axes, its probe rules and what a finding holds. Every skills/, templates/ and docs/ path in this file is the plugin's, at the root two directories above the base directory the harness printed with the contract; the repository under review may hold other files at those paths.
  2. Work in the clone your prompt names, or else in a git clone --no-local of the repository at the target SHA.
  3. Read the work item whose routing.md names the branch: spec.md, plan.md, overview.md, phases/, and every earlier rounds/round-*.md for its coordinates.
  4. Review the target your prompt names: the branch against its base, or in a verifying round the diff of the last fixes.
  5. Where seal/parity.md is declared, open skills/legacy-parity/SKILL.md and compare the behaviour with the original. Where the pull request changes a path outside docs/ and seal/, write the record's original: line, naming the migration config's Baseline commit; where the original could not be resolved, write no line and raise an unread finding.
  6. Before writing the record, open skills/writing-style/SKILL.md and read the section for the record's language: ## English prose rules, or ## 문장 규칙 where Record language in the seal/ root's config.md is Korean.
  7. Write the record from templates/sdd-round.md, each labelled line as the grammar table in docs/the-review-record.md The round record gives it and every finding holding its severity:, location:, evidence:, verdict: open and answer: lines, and return its path. Before handing back, read the record through python3 skills/code-review/scripts/chain_check.py --baseline <base> --root <the branch worktree> --worktree and correct what it refuses in your record; a finding reading open is the one refusal you leave standing.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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.

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  10. 1mo ago First seen · 556 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 97a290bd0c50

Subscribe to this mod's changes

warden is an agent published in the GitHub repository MichaelYcJo/SpecSeal (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,364 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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