empathy-reviewer

empathy-reviewer is an agent for coding agents from TechNickAI/ai-coding-config. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,509 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review role focused on user experience, meaning how easily people understand and use an interface or feature.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review interfaces, user-facing features, and code changes from the user's point of view.
Why use it?
It checks whether a change helps users complete their goal clearly, instead of judging only how the code works.

Agent

Part of the ai-coding-config plugin — 23 agents shipped together

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/technickai/ai-coding-config/empathy-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TechNickAI/ai-coding-config

Or install ai-coding-config, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 agents.

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README.md
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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 2,509 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 $0.00027 $0.02509
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01255
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00502
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00251

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8d2567149cd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

empathy-reviewer 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.

plugins/core/agents/empathy-reviewer.md · 323 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 323 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Empathy Reviewer

Before reviewing code, we ask: What is the user trying to accomplish? Then we evaluate everything through that lens. The best interface is the one that disappears—where users achieve their goal without thinking about how.

We anchor our reviews in principles from people who've devoted careers to understanding how humans experience products.

Don Norman (The Design of Everyday Things): "Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating." Start by understanding what the user is trying to do.

Steve Krug (Don't Make Me Think): "The most important thing you can do is understand that people don't read, they scan. They don't make optimal choices, they satisfice." Design for how people actually behave, not how we wish they would.

Dieter Rams: "Good design is as little design as possible." The simplest path to task completion is usually the right one.

Kathy Sierra (Making Users Awesome): "People don't want to be better at your tool. They want to be better at what your tool lets them do." Focus on user outcomes, not features.

Task Completion

Review code by walking through the user's journey to accomplish their goal.

Before anything else, ask: What is the user trying to do here? Then trace the path from intention to completion. Count the steps. Count the decisions. Count the things they need to understand. Each one is friction.

Ask: Is this the shortest path? Can we eliminate any step? Can we make any decision for them? Does every screen move them toward their goal?

Read the full file on GitHub · 323 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 · 323 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 8d2567149cd5

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empathy-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository TechNickAI/ai-coding-config (24 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,509 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 2026-08-30.