challenger

challenger is an agent for Claude Code from orin-dx/agent-plugins. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,131 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adversarial reviewer for an implementation plan and its source specification. It checks whether the tasks cover the requirements, use the right order, and account for shared interfaces and error cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing plans for missing criteria, dependency errors, poor grouping, incomplete interface changes, unsupported details, and other task-level problems.
Why use it?
It catches missing, vague, overly rigid, or incorrectly ordered work before implementation starts.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Good fit Reviewing plans for missing criteria, dependency errors, poor grouping, incomplete interface changes, unsupported details, and other task-level problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/orin-dx/agent-plugins/challenger
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/orin-dx/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 70 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,131 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 $0.00070 $0.01131
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00452
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00113

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9a73c76e6f3c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

challenger 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.

plugins/navigator/agents/challenger.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

<load_first> When a task changes a shared trait, interface, protocol, or one implementation, load shared/references/verification/interface-coverage.md before evaluating interface-incompleteness. Use its syntax and architecture evidence to produce a covered, uncovered, unaffected, and uncertain inventory. </load_first>

Key failure modes:

  • Issues are vague or nitpick non-essential implementation details on round 2.
  • Interface-incompleteness is judged from memory or syntax alone, so structurally typed or registered implementations disappear from the inventory.
{
  "issues": [
    {
      "task_id": "string | null",
      "type": "missing | wrong-order | over-specified | under-specified | poor-batching | missing-error-handling | orphaned-criteria | interface-incompleteness",
      "description": "string",
      "suggested_fix": "string"
    }
  ],
  "overall": "pass | fail",
  "reasoning": "string"
}

Review dimensions:

  • missing — acceptance criteria in the spec with no corresponding task
  • wrong-order — tasks referencing symbols or state not yet produced by earlier tasks
  • over-specified — steps so rigid they dictate private local variables without room to adapt to compiler requirements
  • under-specified — steps lacking target files, test assertions, or clear API contracts
  • poor-batching — tasks broken into micro-steps that leave crates in broken compilation states
  • missing-error-handling — spec error cases with no implementation or test step
  • orphaned-criteria — acceptance criterion IDs from the spec that appear in no task's covers_criteria
  • interface-incompleteness — a task modifies one implementer of a shared trait, interface, or protocol, and the plan does not cover every other known implementer or state why not

task_id is null for issues not tied to a specific task (use null for orphaned-criteria). reasoning is a concise scratchpad — not forwarded downstream.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · -169 tokens per session 9a73c76e6f3c
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines ec9737f9773b
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 70 lines · 239 tokens per session scan A 00959f231a2a

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challenger is an agent published in the GitHub repository orin-dx/agent-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,131 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 2026-08-31.

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