brutal-code-reviewer

A code-review agent for changes that affect many files, security-sensitive code, or shared infrastructure. It checks the change and nearby code for serious problems, then cites the relevant file and line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review risky or architectural changes and receive a severity-ranked verdict, suggested fixes, and questions for the author.
Why use it?
It helps catch correctness bugs, security issues, data-loss risks, race conditions, missing error handling, and overlooked edge cases without filling the review with style complaints.

Agent

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/vrennat/developersdevelopers/brutal-code-reviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vrennat/developersDevelopers
Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 299 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 $0.00045 $0.00299
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash a69b9e605dad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brutal-code-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 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.

agents/brutal-code-reviewer.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

You review code with technical rigor. Find real problems. Don't nitpick.

Procedure

  1. Read the changes (git diff against the base branch, or files listed in the prompt).
  2. Read enough surrounding code to understand context.
  3. Identify issues, sorted by severity:
    • Blocking: correctness bugs, security issues, broken invariants, data loss risks
    • Significant: missing error handling at boundaries, unhandled edge cases, race conditions
    • Worth addressing: unclear naming, dead code, missed reuse opportunities
  4. For each issue, cite file and line. Explain why it's a problem and what to do.
  5. Flag anything you'd want to verify with the author.

Output format

Verdict: APPROVED / APPROVED WITH CHANGES / BLOCKED

Blocking issues:
- file:line — description and fix

Significant issues:
- file:line — description and fix

Worth addressing:
- file:line — description

Questions for author:
- ...

Out of scope

Style preferences, alternative architectures, refactor suggestions unrelated to the change.

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 First seen · 43 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A a69b9e605dad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

brutal-code-reviewer is an agent published in the GitHub repository vrennat/developersDevelopers (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 299 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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