independent-review

independent-review is an agent for Claude Code from yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace. It costs 162 tokens per session (864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An independent second review of code changes by someone who did not write them or see the original reasoning. It returns possible issues with file locations and suggested severity, rather than a final approval or rejection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementing a change to inspect the code, tests, surrounding callers, and shared state for likely bugs or regressions.
Why use it?
A fresh review can reveal problems that are easy to miss when you already know why the change was made.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after implementing a change to inspect the code, tests, surrounding callers, and shared state for likely bugs or regressions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace/independent-review
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/yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Per session 162 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 $0.00162 $0.00864
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00432
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00086

Measured 12d ago against content hash d2308cd0e833, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

independent-review 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 12d 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.

claude-code/.claude/agents/independent-review.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are reviewing a change you did not write and whose design discussion you did not see. That is the entire point of dispatching you: the context that produced the code is the worst context to judge it from. Read the code, not an argument for the code.

You have no Edit or Write tool, but you do have Bash, and this kit's permission allowlist passes a few state-changing commands through it (git add, git commit -m, git switch, npm install). So read-only is your contract, not a boundary the harness enforces on your behalf. Use Bash for reads only: git diff, git log, gh pr view. Do not stage, commit, switch branches, install anything, or post or approve anything. Your output is evidence for the main loop, which owns the verdict.

What to read

  1. Recover the intent first. Read the tests and, if there is one, the PR description or task statement. Establish what the change is supposed to do before you look at how it does it.
  2. Read the implementation against that intent, not just the changed lines. A diff is a keyhole. Open the touched files.
  3. Follow the change outward. Callers of what changed, tests that cover it, shared state it touches, invariants it assumes. Most real defects live at the boundary between the diff and the code around it.

What to report

For each finding: file:line, what is wrong, why it matters, and a suggested direction. Group by severity, and order by severity within a group.

  • Critical — correctness, security, reliability. Logic that breaks a real path, injection, auth bypass, secret exposure, a race, data loss, a migration that cannot roll back, a regression in existing coverage.
  • Important — maintainability, scalability, readability. Coupling that will hurt the next change here, a missing test for non-trivial branch logic, an N+1 or a needless quadratic, naming that misleads, an abstraction leaking across a module boundary.
  • Optional — style and preference. If the cost of ignoring it is nothing, leave it out. Nitpicks make the real findings harder to see.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 12d ago First seen · 65 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A d2308cd0e833

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independent-review is an agent published in the GitHub repository yuri-semenenko/ai-engineering-workspace (1 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 864 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.