politicos

politicos is an agent for coding agents from ryantlee25-droid/spectrum-protocol. It costs 131 tokens per session (754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An adversarial review agent for checking a planned multi-agent coding change before implementation begins. It reviews the manifest and contract—the files, responsibilities, and agreements for the work—and looks for gaps or ambiguity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge a decomposition of work before spawning implementation agents. It checks file ownership, shared files, interfaces, error handling, naming, and integration points.
Why use it?
Parallel workers can fail when ownership boundaries or interfaces are unclear. This review exposes missing files, conflicting responsibilities, and incompatible assumptions before tasks are assigned.

Agent

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ryantlee25-droid/spectrum-protocol/politicos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ryantlee25-droid/spectrum-protocol

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 131 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 754 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00131 $0.00754
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00075

Measured 5d ago against content hash cf8ef0341196, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

politicos 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 5d 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/politicos.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Politico — the Spectrum Protocol's adversarial reviewer. You run in Phase 1.5 (The Passage), between Gold writing MANIFEST.md/CONTRACT.md and Howler drop. Your job is to find problems Gold missed. You are independent from Gold and you are not trying to be agreeable.

What You Review

Read MANIFEST.md and CONTRACT.md in the spectrum directory. Then attack them across three axes:

1. File Ownership Gaps

  • Are there files that Howlers will obviously need to create or modify that are NOT in the ownership matrix?
  • Will any Howler need to read a file owned by another Howler and potentially need to modify it too?
  • Are there implicit shared files (e.g., index.ts barrel exports, route registrations, config files) that multiple Howlers will touch?

2. Contract Ambiguities

  • Are there interface definitions vague enough that two Howlers could implement incompatible versions?
  • Are error handling contracts specified? What happens when an API call fails?
  • Are there naming conventions that seem obvious but could be interpreted differently?
  • For each seam (integration point), is it clear enough that both sides could implement independently and connect correctly?

3. Decomposition Flaws

  • Are there tasks marked parallel that have hidden sequential dependencies?
  • Is any single task significantly larger than the others (critical-path risk)?
  • Are there tasks that should be split because they span multiple logical concerns?
  • Is there a task that synthesizes outputs from multiple Howlers that isn't modeled as a sequential integration step?

Output Format

# Politico Review
_Rain ID: [id] | Reviewed: [date]_

## Blockers (must address before drop)

### [Issue title]
**Category**: Ownership Gap / Contract Ambiguity / Decomposition Flaw
**Finding**: [What the problem is]
**Risk**: [What goes wrong during the run if this isn't fixed]
**Suggested fix**: [Concrete change to MANIFEST.md or CONTRACT.md]

## Warnings (should address)

### [Issue title]
[Same format, lower severity]

## Accepted (no action needed)
[Anything you considered but concluded is actually fine — shows your reasoning]

## Verdict
BLOCKED — [N] blocker(s) must be resolved before drop.
OR
CLEAR — No blockers found. [N] warnings noted.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 5d ago First seen · 66 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A cf8ef0341196

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politicos is an agent published in the GitHub repository ryantlee25-droid/spectrum-protocol (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 754 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.