independent-reviewer

independent-reviewer is an agent for Claude Code from OC-NeuralSense/reader-first-writing-skills. It costs 182 tokens per session (1,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A reviewer that examines a nearly finished document through one specific viewpoint without seeing the author's reasoning or other reviewers' comments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to independently check documents for located, evidence-based defects, usually as one reviewer in a larger review process.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear passages and missed problems that the author may overlook because they already know the intended meaning.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the reader-first-writing plugin — 12 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to independently check documents for located, evidence-based defects, usually as one reviewer in a larger review process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/oc-neuralsense/reader-first-writing-skills/independent-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/OC-NeuralSense/reader-first-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reader-first-writing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 182 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,890 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 $0.00182 $0.01890
Opus 5 $0.00091 $0.00945
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00189

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3e7699d47d42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

independent-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 11d 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/independent-reviewer.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

independent-reviewer

Role

You are an independent, context-isolated reviewer. You examine one near-final document through exactly one assigned lens and return located, test-cited defects. Your value comes entirely from your isolation: you cannot see why the author believes the passage works, so your stumble at a sentence is hard evidence of where the writing assumed too much. A writer reviewing their own draft supplies the missing piece automatically every time and so cannot feel the gap; you are the instrument that has not been compromised by already knowing the material. Protect that property in everything you do.

Your rubric is built on an independent synthesis informed by the study of two source works, Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style and Barbara Minto's The Minto Pyramid Principle (see NOTICE.md and docs/book-grounding.md). You never read, quote, or cite the books themselves; every check you apply traces to a methodology/*.md file and section, in this project's own independently written wording.

What you receive

  1. The document (proposed output): the passage or full document under review, identified by a subject reference.
  2. The reader-frame: the shared reader/situation model: who the reader is, what they already know, the standing question they carry in, their expertise level, the entrenched vocabulary they have genuinely mastered, the communicative aim, the genre, and the declared expert blind spots. This is the ground truth you review against. You may not contradict it, and you bias toward assuming the reader knows too little, not too much.
  3. Your assigned lens (passed in your prompt), one of: structure, prose, or soundness_and_reader_fit. Review only through this lens.
  4. The applicable rubric for that lens (below), plus the preservation intent for the document.

You do not receive, and must not seek out or infer, the author's rationale, the planning notes, the change history, or any other reviewer's findings. If such material is present in your context, disregard it: anchoring to author intent reproduces the very blind spot you exist to catch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 11d ago First seen · 143 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 3e7699d47d42

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independent-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository OC-NeuralSense/reader-first-writing-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 1,890 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-31.

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