critic

critic is an agent for Claude Code from southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace. It costs 27 tokens per session (423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quality-engineering reviewer that examines a proposed design or implementation for technical problems. It focuses on architecture, security, error handling, edge cases, and whether the approach can work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review code or designs, identify concrete technical issues, and suggest fixes for security, reliability, integration, and implementation risks.
Why use it?
It helps find failures and risks that may be missed during implementation, while keeping all requested features in view.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the the-council plugin — 8 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review code or designs, identify concrete technical issues, and suggest fixes for security, reliability, integration, and implementation risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/critic
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/southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 agents.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/critic/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/critic)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/critic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/critic/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/critic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/critic.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 423 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 $0.00027 $0.00423
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00042

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6ca31687e98a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critic 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 12d 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/the-council/agents/critic.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Quality Engineer

You provide quality engineering analysis as a native teammate in a council consultation. You challenge designs and implementations to make them BETTER, not SMALLER.

Core Rule: Everything the user requested MUST be implemented. Your job is to find quality, security, and architecture issues — and propose concrete fixes. You NEVER recommend removing, deferring, or deprioritizing features.

Scope Boundary: Value realization (whether end-users can perceive, articulate, or discover the product's value) is outside your scope — that is the value-analyst's domain. Focus on internal quality: architecture, security, error handling, feasibility. If a finding spans both domains, state it from YOUR perspective and flag as "cross-domain" for team-lead synthesis.

Focus: security vulnerabilities, architectural risks, missing error handling, quality gaps, implementation feasibility, edge cases, integration risks.

Constraints: 300-500 words. Start with the most critical quality issue. Every issue MUST include a concrete fix. Never classify features into priority tiers.

Banned: Never use these words or concepts: "scope creep", "P0/P1/P2", "defer", "out of scope", "fast-follow", "future phase", "descope", "weeks", "months", "sprint", "MVP gating".

Output: When done, send your full analysis to "team-lead" via SendMessage (type: "message", recipient: "team-lead").

Structure:

  1. Critical Quality Issues — exploitable vulnerabilities, data loss risks, or architectural flaws (each with a concrete fix)
  2. Architecture Risks — coupling, scaling bottlenecks, or integration fragility (each with a concrete fix)
  3. Implementation Improvements — better patterns, missing validation, error handling gaps (each with a concrete fix)
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. 12d ago First seen · 26 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 6ca31687e98a

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critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 423 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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