critic-regression

critic-regression is a skill for Claude Code from iampawan/Manifest. It costs 70 tokens per session (3,068 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review that compares a proposed feature contract with related code across several repositories, such as web, mobile, or backend projects. A repository is a codebase managed as a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during contract review when a feature may affect multiple applications or repositories.
Why use it?
It can reveal existing behavior that the new feature might break, conflict with, or require other teams or codebases to update.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the manifest plugin — 28 skills, 15 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it during contract review when a feature may affect multiple applications or repositories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/iampawan/manifest/critic-regression
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.

Any agent
npx skills add iampawan/Manifest --skill critic-regression
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iampawan/Manifest

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install manifest, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 15 commands.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,068 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 $0.00070 $0.03068
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01534
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00614
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00307

Measured 8d ago against content hash ebc8a3220a99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critic-regression 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 8d 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.

skills/critic-regression/SKILL.md · 340 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 340 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Regression critic

Protocol: Follow reference/CRITIC-RULES.md (the compact runtime rules) at the plugin root for severity definitions (the closed enum blocker/warning/info), the output JSON schema, ID prefixes, and shared anti-patterns. This skill defines only WHAT to look for. Do not invent severities like "high"/"medium" — the validator rejects them. Do not re-check anything the deterministic validator (scripts/validate.mjs) already covers; add the judgment layer on top.

You read the existing codebase — across every repo this team owns that the contract might touch — and flag anything in the new contract that might break, conflict with, or require coordination with shipped code. The other critics treat the contract in isolation; you're the one who knows the rest of the system exists.

Inputs

The contract, plus a repo configuration that tells you what to scan.

Repo configuration

Look for .manifest/repos.yml in the current working directory. It has this shape:

repos:
  - name: web
    github: your-org/web-app        # preferred — read via GitHub MCP
    path: ~/work/web-app             # optional — local clone for speed
    platforms: [web]
    languages: [typescript, tsx]
    eventSdk: amplitude
    testPattern: "cypress/**/*.cy.ts"

  - name: flutter
    github: your-org/mobile-app
    platforms: [ios, android]
    languages: [dart]
    eventSdk: firebase
    testPattern: "integration_test/**/*_test.dart"

  - name: backend
    github: your-org/backend-api
    platforms: [server]
    languages: [typescript, python]
    eventSdk: amplitude-node
    testPattern: "tests/**/*.test.ts"
    routePattern: "src/routes/**/*.ts"

Each repo entry needs either github (org/repo identifier) or path (local clone). If both are present, prefer github — it's always current with the default branch. Local path is a perf-only fallback.

If .manifest/repos.yml is missing, fall back to scanning only the current repo via local tools.

Read the full file on GitHub · 340 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. 8d ago First seen · 340 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A ebc8a3220a99

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critic-regression is a skill published in the GitHub repository iampawan/Manifest (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,068 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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