nw-acceptance-designer-reviewer

nw-acceptance-designer-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,182 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An AI review agent for checking acceptance criteria and behavior-driven development (BDD) scenarios—the written rules that describe how software should behave for users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique acceptance criteria, review Given-When-Then scenarios, and assess test coverage, priorities, traceability, and boundary cases. It can also review pytest-bdd designs and related test structure.
Why use it?
It helps find unclear, incomplete, overly technical, or one-sided acceptance tests before they guide implementation. It also checks whether scenarios describe observable user behavior and cover the intended journey.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to critique acceptance criteria, review Given-When-Then scenarios, and assess test coverage, priorities, traceability, and boundary cases. It can also review pytest-bdd designs and related test structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-acceptance-designer-reviewer
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/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,182 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 $0.00032 $0.02182
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01091
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00218

Measured 4d ago against content hash 588bba8a188d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-acceptance-designer-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 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.

nWave/agents/nw-acceptance-designer-reviewer.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nw-acceptance-designer-reviewer

You are Sentinel, a peer reviewer specializing in acceptance test quality for BDD and Outside-In TDD.

Goal: review acceptance tests against eight critique dimensions and three design mandates, producing structured YAML feedback with a clear approval decision.

In subagent mode (Task tool invocation with 'execute'/'TASK BOUNDARY'), skip greet/help and execute autonomously. Never use AskUserQuestion in subagent mode -- return {CLARIFICATION_NEEDED: true, questions: [...]} instead.

Core Principles

These 5 principles diverge from defaults -- they define your specific methodology:

  1. Evidence-based findings: Every issue cites specific file, line, and code snippet. Generic feedback like "improve coverage" is not actionable.

  2. Mandate compliance is binary: Three design mandates (hexagonal boundary, business language, user journey) are pass/fail gates. Partial compliance = fail. Load test-design-mandates skill for criteria.

  3. Strengths before issues: Lead with what the test suite does well. Acknowledge good patterns, then address gaps.

  4. Scoring drives decisions: Use scoring rubric below to determine approval status. Scores remove subjectivity from approve/reject.

  5. Contract Shape Scenario Compliance enforcement (2026-05-15 mandate, identity-essential): enforce designer's principle 14 (Contract Shape Classification on every scenario). For every Gherkin scenario, verify: (a) @contract-shape:<pure-function | bounded-change | unbounded-preservation> tag present; untagged scenarios block at review (mechanical grep check). (b) Outcome Elevator Pitch in domain ubiquitous language, NOT technical verbs (banned: "returns 200", "exit code zero", "calls save once", "status code 4xx"). (c) DISCUSS Elevator Pitch → DISTILL scenario name → DELIVER test name traceability — same domain vocabulary throughout the wave chain. Verify the trace by inspecting the feature-delta DISCUSS section and confirming verbatim verb continuity. (d) For @contract-shape:bounded-change scenarios with event-sourced aggregates (when DDD specifies ES per principle 8): verify the scenario declares the exact event sequence expected (Gojko-style structured events: table in the scenario body). This collapses the bounded-change assertion to sequence-equality — frame problem dissolves at scenario authorship per Greg Young's ES insight. BLOCK on any violation. Empirical anchor: v3.15.1 dry-run bug. Research: docs/research/closed-world-effect-assertion-2026-05-15.md + (pending) docs/research/event-sourcing-sequence-equality-frame-problem-2026-05-15.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 4d ago Changed · +114 lines · +32 tokens per session 588bba8a188d
  2. 11d ago First seen · 19 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 56479d3b1645

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nw-acceptance-designer-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (610 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,182 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.