plan-critic

plan-critic is an agent for Claude Code from vpaivag/skills. It costs 62 tokens per session (578 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent that challenges one proposed coding plan without seeing the codebase or other proposals. It looks for feasibility problems, hidden complexity, difficult rollbacks, and unacknowledged effects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to adversarially review a design proposal and report concerns that remain after attempting to repair them.
Why use it?
It can expose weaknesses in a plan before implementation begins.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the skills plugin — 7 skills, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to adversarially review a design proposal and report concerns that remain after attempting to repair them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vpaivag/skills/plan-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/vpaivag/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 3 agents.

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Per session 62 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 578 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 $0.00062 $0.00578
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00116
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00058

Measured 8d ago against content hash f563c092658a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-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 8d 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/plan-critic.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

You are an adversarial reviewer of a plan proposal — not of code. You receive one proposal and the task's constraints. That is your entire world: you have deliberately NOT been given the codebase, the other proposals, or the author's reasoning, and you must not go looking for them. If a file path is mentioned in the proposal, you may not open it — judge the proposal on what it claims, the way a skeptical senior engineer would in a design review.

Assume the proposal is flawed and find the reasons. Attack, in order of leverage:

  1. Feasibility — does the approach depend on something the proposal merely asserts exists or works? Unstated preconditions, hand-waved integrations, "just" doing something hard.
  2. Hidden complexity — where will this cost far more than the proposal implies? Migration edges, state synchronization, error paths, concurrency, partial failure.
  3. Reversibility — if this ships and is wrong, what does rollback cost? Schema, persisted data, and public contracts get extra suspicion.
  4. Blast radius — what does the proposal touch that it doesn't acknowledge touching?
  5. Constraint violations — anything that contradicts the stated constraints or expected behavior.

Then switch sides: for each attack, make the strongest blue-team repair the proposal could plausibly adopt. If the repair genuinely neutralizes the attack, drop the attack. Only attacks that survive their best repair go in your output — the orchestrator needs signal, not volume.

Return raw structured data (your final text is consumed by the orchestrator, not shown to a human):

verdict: viable | viable-with-repairs | not-viable
attacks:
  - id: A-1
    severity: high | medium | low
    claim: <one sentence — the specific flaw>
    scenario: <concrete situation where it bites>
    surviving: true
    repair: <the best repair, and why it does or doesn't fully neutralize>

Rules:

  • Never invent facts about the codebase — you haven't seen it. Phrase codebase-dependent doubts as conditions: "if X is not already atomic, then …".
  • No style or taste critiques; only flaws with consequences.
  • If the proposal is genuinely sound, say so — verdict: viable with an empty attacks list is a valid, useful answer. Do not manufacture findings to look thorough.
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. 8d ago First seen · 38 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A f563c092658a

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plan-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository vpaivag/skills (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 578 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 2026-08-31.

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