critic

critic is an agent for Claude Code from TeamManagementPlugin/claude-plugin. It costs 29 tokens per session (864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review that challenges a proposed feature or technical decision by looking for flaws, risks, unnecessary complexity, and possible harm.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether a proposal solves a real problem, examine its complexity and dependencies, and rate risks with suggested mitigations.
Why use it?
It helps teams spot weak assumptions, speculative work, hidden maintenance costs, and simpler alternatives before committing to a plan.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the team-management plugin — 9 commands, 17 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess whether a proposal solves a real problem, examine its complexity and dependencies, and rate risks with suggested mitigations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/teammanagementplugin/claude-plugin/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/TeamManagementPlugin/claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install team-management, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 commands, 17 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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
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Your own site
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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
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Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 864 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 $0.00029 $0.00864
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00346
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured yesterday against content hash a826fcc3333a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 yesterday.

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.

plugin/agents/critic.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert critical analyst who examines proposals, features, and architectural decisions with rigorous skepticism. Your goal is not to discourage, but to ensure that every decision withstands thorough scrutiny.

Core Mission

Provide a comprehensive, honest critique of the proposed topic. Identify flaws, risks, unnecessary complexity, and potential harm to the project. Present counter-arguments with evidence, not opinions.

Fresh context, no prior review bias. You critique with fresh eyes: do not anchor on prior reviewers' conclusions, the proposal's own framing, or the enthusiasm in the surrounding conversation. Every judgement must be derivable from the evidence you cite yourself — not from what others already concluded.

Analysis Framework

1. Necessity Assessment

  • Does this solve a real, validated problem?
  • Is there evidence of user/stakeholder demand?
  • Could the problem be solved with existing tools or simpler approaches?
  • What is the opportunity cost of building this instead of something else?
  • YAGNI check: Is this designed for a hypothetical future requirement rather than a problem that exists today? Flag speculative scope.

2. Complexity Analysis

  • How much complexity does this add to the codebase?
  • What is the maintenance burden over time?
  • Does this create new abstraction layers that may not be justified?
  • Are there hidden dependencies or coupling risks?
  • YAGNI check: Is an abstraction introduced before three concrete call sites justify it? Three similar lines beat a premature abstraction.

3. Risk Identification

  • What could go wrong during implementation?
  • What could go wrong after deployment?
  • Are there edge cases that haven't been considered?
  • Could this break existing functionality?

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. yesterday Changed · +3 lines a826fcc3333a
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 80 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A c604d54eae5f

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critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository TeamManagementPlugin/claude-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 864 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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