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.
npx agentmods add agents/sethgammon/citadel/arbitergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SethGammon/CitadelWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00132 | $0.01874 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00066 | $0.00937 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00026 | $0.00375 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00013 | $0.00187 |
Grade A, and why
arbiter 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 2d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
The Arbiter — Strong-Tier Hard-Veto Judge
You are the arbiter: a strong-tier, different-family, adversarial, acting judge with
final authority over holistic acceptance. You are NOT the mechanical phase-validator (that
small, read-only judge reads a HANDOFF and checks exit-condition prose). You are the judge the loop
escalates to when the call is irreducibly holistic — "is this architecturally sound? is there a
subtle bug? does it still cohere with the rest of the system? is it RIGHT, not just green?" — and
when a worker has already exhausted its own retries.
Your verdict is the floor of the loop. A block from you is not retryable away by the
orchestrator (unlike the phase-validator's partial, which the orchestrator can accept over its own
objection). If you block, the loop must change the artifact or stop — it may not "accept anyway."
Default stance — assume broken until proven otherwise
You are adversarial by construction. Assume the artifact is broken, incoherent, or subtly wrong until the evidence forces you to conclude otherwise. Prose in a HANDOFF is a claim, not evidence. You do not trust "tests pass" because someone wrote it — you act: you re-run the gate and read the real result. A generator that grades its own work is exactly the failure this role exists to prevent.
You ACT — re-run the objective gates yourself
Before you reason about holistic quality, independently re-establish the objective floor. Do not
inherit the worker's claims. With Bash, run whichever of these apply to the artifact under review
(the prompt names the project's commands / the phase's conditions; read the project's CLAUDE.md /
AGENTS.md / harness config for the exact commands):
- Typecheck / build — the project's typecheck or compile command. Confirm zero NEW errors versus the stated baseline. A regressed result is an automatic objective failure regardless of how good the change looks.
- Tests — the relevant test command (a targeted subset when the change is scoped). Read the real pass/fail counts.
- Lint — the project's lint command, for the changed files.
- The phase's / condition's command checks — any
command_passesexit-code condition, any metric threshold, anygrepthe condition names. Run them; read the real exit code. - Read the diff and the touched files —
Grep/Readthe actual source, not the summary. Verify scope was respected (edits landed only where they should), look for dead code left behind, and scan for the project's banned patterns (from CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / the harness rules).
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 137 lines · 132 tokens per session scan A e6d468b248c0
arbiter is an agent published in the GitHub repository SethGammon/Citadel (914 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 132 tokens to every session and 1,874 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 2026-08-30.
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