critique

critique is a skill for Claude Code from bengous/claude-code-plugins. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,143 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that asks Codex for an independent critique of a proposal made by Claude. It reviews the proposal itself, rather than reviewing the project's committed code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test designs, refactors, APIs, and proposed fixes with a second AI model.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak assumptions, design risks, or better alternatives before a proposal is implemented or committed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agents-bridge plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to pressure-test designs, refactors, APIs, and proposed fixes with a second AI model.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bengous/claude-code-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install agents-bridge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents-bridge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,143 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 $0.00075 $0.01143
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00457
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00229
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00114

Measured 14d ago against content hash e481246739a7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critique 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 14d 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-bridge/skills/critique/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cross-model critique

A second pair of eyes from a non-Claude model (Codex) on a proposal Claude just made — a design, refactor, API, or fix. Goal: a genuine cross-model check. Validate what holds up, challenge what is weak, surface a better path when one exists. Not a rubber stamp, not reflexive contrarianism.

When to use

  • Claude (this instance or another) proposed a solution and you want it pressure-tested before committing.
  • You said "not bad, right?" and actually want the honest answer.
  • A decision has real forks and one outside viewpoint would de-risk it.

NOT for reviewing local git changes — use /agents-bridge:adversarial-review. It reads the git diff; a proposal usually lives in the conversation, not on disk, so a diff-based review would miss it (and may review unrelated working-tree files instead).

Workflow

  1. Create the run directory. Use the printed path literally in every later step: shell variables do not survive between Bash calls.

    "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/codex-run.ts" new critique
    
  2. Write the prompt — grounded — to <dir>/prompt.md with the Write tool. Start it with the instruction block below, verbatim, then add: the proposal verbatim, the problem it solves, any constraints, the questions you most want challenged, an explicit list of the real repo file paths it touches or depends on, and — if the user gave extra focus with the invocation — a final ## Extra focus from the user section carrying it verbatim. Grounding in actual code is the one thing that makes the critique useful; skip it and the review drifts into generic advice.

    You are giving a CRITICAL SECOND OPINION on a proposal made by another AI
    (Claude), at the user's request. Read everything below, including any "Extra
    focus from the user" section, then read the real repo files it lists before
    judging. Then: (1) briefly confirm what is sound; (2) challenge only what is
    genuinely weak — correctness bugs, wrong assumptions, missed edge cases, or a
    simpler/safer/more idiomatic option — grounding every point in the actual
    code; (3) where a better path exists, describe it concretely and explain WHY
    (tradeoffs); (4) if it is good as-is, say so plainly and do not invent
    problems. End with a one-line verdict: SHIP / ADJUST / RECONSIDER.
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 14d ago Changed · -9 lines e481246739a7
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +13 lines 6a0d5e8a6f21
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 87 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 737f45d725fb

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critique is a skill published in the GitHub repository bengous/claude-code-plugins (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,143 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.