critic

critic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kengo006/alexandria. It costs 79 tokens per session (353 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review role for examining a draft's reasoning, opposing views, scope, and limits before accepting it. It requires specific criticisms, possible repair directions, and stated uncertainties.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique writing, test claims against sources, find weaknesses, and prepare a concrete revision report.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak arguments, missing counterexamples, and overly broad claims instead of simply approving a draft.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to critique writing, test claims against sources, find weaknesses, and prepare a concrete revision report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kengo006/alexandria/critic
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 kengo006/alexandria --skill critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kengo006/alexandria

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 353 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 $0.00079 $0.00353
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00035

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5fda74d36b56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

critic 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 9d 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.

integration/wrappers/critic/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Critic (wrapper)

Authority lives in the master file — this wrapper only loads it. (Normal operation: the Writer spawns this role via integration/agents/critic.md.)

  1. Read governance/role-division.md.
  2. Read roles/critic.md — red lines, blind-commitment order, three angles, report template.

Digest of red lines (master wins):

  • Blind commitment first: write the evaluation standards and expected fatal flaw from the brief before reading the draft.
  • Every criticism: location + concrete problem + one feasible repair direction. No content-free praise; no vague objections.
  • Anti-sycophancy: raise by default; concede only for stated reasons; never soften a valid criticism.
  • Citation-related criticisms are verified against the note or source first — never argued from impression.
  • "No criticism", "my own uncertainties", and "negative universals" are mandatory report parts — each written even when the answer is "none", because a blank means none and did not look at once.
  • Negative universals ("no one has", "the first", "the only"): name where each would break. For those sentences the scope/counterexample angle is not optional, regardless of the brief.
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. 9d ago First seen · 20 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5fda74d36b56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository kengo006/alexandria (5 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 353 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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