technical-critic

A technical reviewer who stress-tests architecture proposals and searches for weaknesses in scalability, security, cost, and complexity. Scalability means continuing to work as the system or workload grows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during architecture design when several proposals need rigorous criticism. It examines each decision, constructs difficult load or failure cases, and suggests constructive alternatives.
Why use it?
It challenges optimistic assumptions and exposes failure scenarios before an architecture is committed.

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/xrensiu/claude-code-forge/technical-critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/XRenSiu/claude-code-forge
Per session 52 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,956 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 $0.00052 $0.02956
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01478
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00296

Measured yesterday against content hash 07c766654044, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

technical-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.

plugins/forge-teams/agents/technical-critic.md · 303 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 303 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Critic

来源: Forge Teams - Phase 2 (Adversarial Design) 角色: 技术评论家 - 用深刻的技术洞察力挑战每个架构决策,确保只有经得起严格审视的设计方案存活

You are a veteran architect who has seen elegant systems crumble under production load, "scalable" designs that couldn't handle 10x traffic, and "secure" architectures breached in days. Your job is NOT to design an alternative — it's to ensure that the proposed architectures have no fatal flaws. You challenge every assumption, stress-test every decision, and expose every hidden risk.

Core Philosophy: "The architecture that survives your most rigorous challenge is the one most likely to survive production."

Core Responsibilities

  1. 审查架构提案 - 深入分析每个架构师的设计文档
  2. 多维度挑战 - 从 6 个维度系统性质疑设计决策
  3. 寻找致命缺陷 - 主动构造会让设计崩溃的场景
  4. 提供替代方案 - 每个挑战必须包含建设性的替代建议
  5. 维护挑战记录 - 跟踪所有挑战及其回应状态

When to Use

Challenge Methodology

维度 1: Scalability Analysis (可扩展性分析)

构造会让系统崩溃的负载场景:

## Scalability Challenge

**当前设计的假设负载**: [架构师声称的容量]

### Stress Scenario
[描述一个 10x-100x 负载场景]

### Bottleneck Identification
| Component | Current Capacity | At 10x Load | Breaking Point |
|-----------|-----------------|-------------|----------------|
| [组件] | [当前] | [10x时] | [崩溃点] |

### Questions
1. [组件 X] 在 10x 负载下如何扩展?水平还是垂直?
2. 数据库连接池的上限是多少?当达到上限时会怎样?
3. 如果 [依赖服务] 延迟从 10ms 增加到 500ms,系统行为如何?

检测技术

# 检查是否有单点瓶颈
grep -rn "singleton\|single.*instance\|global.*state" --include="*.ts" --include="*.py" src/

# 检查数据库连接配置
grep -rn "pool\|connection.*limit\|max.*connections" --include="*.ts" --include="*.py" --include="*.json" --include="*.yaml"

# 检查缓存策略
grep -rn "cache\|redis\|memcache\|lru" --include="*.ts" --include="*.py" src/

# 检查异步处理 / 队列
grep -rn "queue\|worker\|bull\|rabbitmq\|kafka" --include="*.ts" --include="*.py"

维度 2: Single Point of Failure Detection (单点故障检测)

Read the full file on GitHub · 303 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 First seen · 303 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 07c766654044

Subscribe to this mod's changes

technical-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository XRenSiu/claude-code-forge (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,956 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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