backend-jvm-language-review

backend-jvm-language-review is a skill for Claude Code from infraspecdev/tesseract. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,708 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for modern Java and Kotlin code, focusing on language features and common design choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing records, sealed types, null handling, Optional use, exceptions, data classes, scope functions, and coroutines.
Why use it?
It helps catch code that compiles but can be unclear, unnecessarily mutable, or prone to subtle bugs.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Good fit It is for reviewing records, sealed types, null handling, Optional use, exceptions, data classes, scope functions, and coroutines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/infraspecdev/tesseract/jvm-language-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.

Any agent
npx skills add infraspecdev/tesseract --skill jvm-language-review
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 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,708 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 $0.00072 $0.01708
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00683
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00342
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00171

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2b75c55725fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backend-jvm-language-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 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/skills/backend/jvm-language-review/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

JVM Language Review

Overview

Review Java and Kotlin source for idiomatic language usage independent of framework concerns. Catches issues that compile but don't match modern idioms or that risk subtle bugs (mutability, ID-based equals, missed Optional checks, etc.).

Triggers when Java (.java) or Kotlin (.kt) source files are in scope. Pairs with code-quality-review (which is language-agnostic SOLID/DRY/KISS) and spring-data (which covers entity-specific equals/hashCode).

Java Version Compatibility

Supported: Java 17 (declared via java_versions: ["17"] in frontmatter — matches Spring Boot 3 baseline).

Java 11 (older LTS) — degraded coverage:

  • J1 (records): NOT AVAILABLE before Java 14 — DON'T flag missing record usage; suggest plain final-field POJO
  • J2 (sealed types): NOT AVAILABLE before Java 17 — DON'T flag closed hierarchies as needing sealed; suggest enum or class hierarchy with package-private constructors
  • J3–J10: all apply

Java 8 (legacy) — degraded coverage:

  • J1, J2: not available (see Java 11 above)
  • J5 (var): NOT AVAILABLE before Java 10 — DON'T flag missing var; explicit types are required
  • J7 (try-with-resources): applies, but final-effectively-final var-in-resource is Java 9+
  • Other checks apply

The agent passes the detected Java major version to this skill; the skill gates language-feature checks accordingly. For new Java versions (e.g., Java 21 with virtual threads, sequenced collections), follow Pattern A (broaden the rubric) per shield/skills/backend/EXTENDING-VERSIONS.md.

Kotlin coverage: The skill body covers Kotlin (K1–K5) conceptually. Fixture-level RED-GREEN testing for Kotlin is deferred to a follow-on (no .kt files in the v1 fixture).

When to Use

  • Reviewing Java domain classes for records / sealed types / immutability
  • Reviewing Kotlin classes for null safety and data class patterns
  • Auditing exception design choices
  • Pre-implementation: shaping a new model or value class

When NOT to Use

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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 · 112 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 2b75c55725fb

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backend-jvm-language-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,708 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 2026-09-03.

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