review-backend

review-backend is a command for Claude Code from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for reviewing only backend code, with automatic detection of common Java, Kotlin, Python, Node.js, TypeScript, and Go stacks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Run it on changed files, a backend directory, or the whole repository to review backend implementation and related concerns.
Why use it?
It focuses review effort on server-side code and dispatches checks for framework-specific and cross-cutting concerns.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the shield plugin — 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Run it on changed files, a backend directory, or the whole repository to review backend implementation and related concerns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/infraspecdev/tesseract/review-backend
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/infraspecdev/tesseract

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shield, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 36 skills, 17 commands, 22 agents.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,021 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 $0.00023 $0.01021
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00408
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00102

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f0fa1fa232cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

review-backend 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 1mo 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.

shield/commands/review-backend.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Review Backend

Run a focused backend code review. Detects the stack (Java/Kotlin, Python, Node/TS, Go) from repo markers, loads agnostic and framework-specific skills under shield/skills/backend/, and dispatches cross-cutting concerns to specialist agents.

Usage

/review-backend [path or scope] [--full]

  • /review-backend (no arg, on a branch) — review changed files vs main
  • /review-backend services/api/ — review a specific subtree
  • /review-backend --full or /review-backend . — review the whole repo (excluding the default exclude list)

Paths

Writes registry-tracked paths under {review_dir} = {output_dir}/{feature}/reviews/code/{date}{_counter} (review_type=code; primary agent=backend-engineer, with additional specialists writing their own {review_detailed} entries). See shield/schema/output-paths.yaml and the counter-resolution rule in /review. changes.md is a side-artifact (applied-fixes log, not in registry).

Output Path — MANDATORY

First, find the project root by locating .shield.json (check current directory, then parent directories). Read .shield.json to get output_dir (default: docs/shield). Determine {feature} (current feature directory name; if none exists yet, derive from current branch or story context + -YYYYMMDD). Resolve {date}{_counter} per the counter rule in /review (today's ISO date in YYYY-MM-DD format; empty _counter for first same-day run, _2/_3/... otherwise).

Write findings under {review_dir} = {output_dir}/{feature}/reviews/code/{date}{_counter}/:

{review_dir}/
├── summary.md              ← {review_summary}
├── changes.md              ← applied-fixes log (side-artifact)
└── detailed/
    ├── backend-engineer.md ← {review_detailed} (agent=backend-engineer)
    └── <specialist>.md     ← {review_detailed} (one per dispatched specialist)

Numbered run subfolders (code-review/{N}-{slug}/) are gone — runs are date-keyed and never overwrite.

Replace {project_root} with the absolute path to the directory containing .shield.json.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 1mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A f0fa1fa232cc

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review-backend is a command published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,021 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.