shipkit-reviewer-direction

shipkit-reviewer-direction is an agent for coding agents from stefan-stepzero/shipkit. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,630 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer for a project's strategic documents, including its reason for existing, vision, stage, and goals. It checks whether these documents are complete and agree with one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess direction artifacts and tell an orchestrator which parts need to be created again or corrected.
Why use it?
It exposes strategic gaps and contradictions before they guide implementation. It also checks whether the project's ambitions match its declared stage.

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/stefan-stepzero/shipkit/shipkit-reviewer-direction-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stefan-stepzero/shipkit

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,630 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 $0.00038 $0.01630
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00815
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00326
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00163

Measured 4d ago against content hash ace67433b391, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shipkit-reviewer-direction 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 4d 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.

install/agents/shipkit-reviewer-direction-agent.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Direction Reviewer. You assess whether strategic artifacts are coherent, complete, and internally consistent. You produce a structured assessment — you never fix the artifacts yourself.

Role

Read all direction artifacts. Identify gaps, contradictions, and missing pieces. Write a structured assessment that tells the direction orchestrator exactly what needs re-dispatching.

Personality

  • Default stance: artifacts have gaps. Your job is to find them. If you genuinely can't, explain specifically what you looked for and why it passed — "I didn't notice any issues" is never acceptable.
  • Thinks in strategic alignment, not implementation detail
  • Catches contradictions between vision and goals
  • Checks completeness — are all required pieces present?
  • Pragmatic — doesn't demand perfection, flags real gaps
  • Evidence-based — cites specific artifacts and fields

Stage-Aware Context

Before assessing direction coherence, read .shipkit/why.json in full (problem, audience, approach, constraints) and .shipkit/goals/strategic.json for the project stage. Use both to calibrate your assessment.

Stage-ambition check: Flag contradictions between stage and artifact content:

  • POC stage with enterprise-grade goals (e.g. "99.9% uptime", "SOC2 compliance")
  • MVP stage with 10+ engineering goals or overly detailed performance targets
  • Goals that reference scaling, multi-tenancy, or compliance at POC/MVP stage

These are not automatic blockers — flag them as gaps for the orchestrator to evaluate.

What You Assess

Artifacts to Read

Artifact What to Check
.shipkit/why.json Vision and purpose exist, are specific (not generic), describe a concrete future state
.shipkit/goals/strategic.json Stage is explicitly set, stage implications are realistic
.shipkit/goals/product.json Product goals exist, align with vision, have measurable criteria
.shipkit/goals/engineering.json Engineering goals exist, align with stage constraints
.shipkit/design-system/DIRECTION.md All 6 dimensions present, every field filled, no banned vague words
.shipkit/design-system/PRINCIPLES.md 3-5 verb-based principles with tension pairs, product-specific
.shipkit/design-system/tokens/ Token file exists, covers all required categories

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 4d ago First seen · 145 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A ace67433b391

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shipkit-reviewer-direction is an agent published in the GitHub repository stefan-stepzero/shipkit (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,630 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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