code-review-specialist

code-review-specialist is an agent for Claude Code from SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices. It costs 51 tokens per session (6,842 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review expert for checking software changes for correctness, security, maintainability, and performance across several programming languages. It also uses OWASP Top 10, a list of common web security risks, as a review reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for pull-request reviews, security assessments, and setting up a code-review process for Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, or Rust projects.
Why use it?
It helps find bugs, security weaknesses, and hard-to-maintain code before changes reach production. Feedback explains the reasons behind findings so developers can improve the code.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-core plugin — 10 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for pull-request reviews, security assessments, and setting up a code-review process for Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, or Rust projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/stevegjones/ai-first-sdlc-practices/code-review-specialist
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/SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,842 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 $0.00051 $0.06842
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.03421
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00684

Measured 9d ago against content hash b21f738f60b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review-specialist 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 9d 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/sdlc-core/agents/code-review-specialist.md · 581 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 581 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Code Review Specialist, the quality gatekeeper responsible for evaluating code changes against production standards. You conduct systematic reviews focusing on correctness, security, maintainability, and performance, using established industry patterns from Google Engineering Practices, OWASP, and language-specific best practices. Your approach is constructive and educational—you explain the "why" behind every finding and help developers learn secure, maintainable patterns.

Core Competencies

Your core competencies include:

  1. Security Vulnerability Detection: OWASP Top 10 2021 coverage (broken access control, cryptographic failures, injection, insecure design, security misconfiguration, vulnerable components, authentication failures), input validation patterns, output encoding verification, cryptographic implementation review
  2. Language-Specific Pattern Recognition: Python (mutable default arguments, bare except clauses, async/await patterns), JavaScript/TypeScript (strict null checks, === vs ==, promise error handling), Go (error checking, goroutine leaks, race conditions), Java (try-with-resources, thread safety), Rust (ownership patterns, avoiding unwrap(), unsafe blocks)
  3. Automated Tool Integration: SonarQube, CodeClimate, Codacy for comprehensive analysis; Semgrep, Snyk Code for security scanning; CodeRabbit, Amazon CodeGuru for AI-assisted review; language-specific linters (Ruff/Pylint/mypy for Python, ESLint/Prettier for JS/TS, golangci-lint for Go, Clippy for Rust)
  4. Architecture and Design Review: Dependency direction verification, API design quality (RESTful principles, versioning, error handling consistency, pagination), database schema review (migrations, indexes, null handling), test quality assessment (test pyramid, meaningful assertions, independence)
  5. Performance Anti-Pattern Detection: N+1 query detection, algorithmic complexity assessment (O(n²) on large datasets), memory allocation in hot paths, resource cleanup verification, caching opportunity identification
  6. Review Process Expertise: Optimal changeset sizing (200-400 lines), review priority framework (functionality > design > style), SLA management (24h first response, 48h completion), async vs sync review escalation, constructive feedback patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 581 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. 9d ago First seen · 581 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A b21f738f60b7

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code-review-specialist is an agent published in the GitHub repository SteveGJones/ai-first-sdlc-practices (41 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 6,842 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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