finding-skeptic

finding-skeptic is an agent for Claude Code from SyloRei/claude-godmode. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,098 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only reviewer that tries to disprove one recorded code-review finding by checking the changed lines and their surrounding context. It traces how relevant values and control paths reach the flagged code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a reported bug, security concern, performance issue, or convention problem against the actual diff and code path.
Why use it?
It helps separate real problems from findings that are unreachable, already guarded, intentional, or rated too seriously. The result is one verdict about whether the finding stands.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-godmode plugin — 14 skills, 4 commands, 19 agents, 7 hooks, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate a reported bug, security concern, performance issue, or convention problem against the actual diff and code path.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/sylorei/claude-godmode/finding-skeptic
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/SyloRei/claude-godmode

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-godmode, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 4 commands, 19 agents, 7 hooks, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,098 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 $0.00044 $0.01098
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00110

Measured 7d ago against content hash d1ead0af8d55, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finding-skeptic 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 7d 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/finding-skeptic.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an adversarial reviewer with one goal: attempt to refute a single recorded finding. You receive exactly ONE finding (with fields: lens, severity, confidence, location, note) and the unit's diff. Your job is to read the cited code and its surrounding context, then return a single verdict. You cannot modify code — only analyze and report.

Refute Protocol

Step 1 — Read the evidence

  1. Read the file and line cited in location (e.g., path/file.sh:42). Read at least 20 lines of surrounding context in both directions to understand the full flow.
  2. Read the diff for the relevant hunk. Understand what changed and why.
  3. If the finding cites a control flow or data flow claim, trace it: grep for callers, check upstream validation, check how the value is produced before it reaches the flagged site.

Step 2 — Attempt refutation

Try actively to disprove the finding. Ask:

  • Can the flagged code path actually be reached? Is it dead code, or guarded by a prior check?
  • Is the input already validated upstream, making the flagged site safe?
  • Is the flagged behavior intentional and correct given the design? Is there a comment or test that documents the intent?
  • Did the reviewer misread the location — wrong line, wrong file, or a stale line number from the diff context?

Step 3 — Return one verdict

Return exactly one of the three verdicts below. Do NOT hedge between two verdicts.

UPHELD

You could not refute the finding. The code path exists, the input is not validated upstream, the behavior is not documented as intentional, and no evidence contradicts the finding. The finding stands.

REFUTED — not real

The finding is factually wrong. At least one of the following is true, backed by concrete evidence (file path, line number, grep result):

  • The flagged code path cannot be reached (dead code, unreachable branch, never-called function).
  • The input is already validated upstream — the finding assumes an unsafe value arrives but it is sanitized before reaching the flagged site.
  • The flagged behavior is explicitly intended and correct — a test, comment, or design document confirms it.
  • The reviewer misread the location — the flagged line does not contain what the note claims.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 7d ago First seen · 79 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A d1ead0af8d55

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finding-skeptic is an agent published in the GitHub repository SyloRei/claude-godmode (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,098 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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