agent-design-review

agent-design-review is a skill for Claude Code from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,060 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured review of an AI agent's design, including its steps, tools, memory, and stopping rules. It looks for places where the agent may loop, choose the wrong tool, lose context, or behave unsafely.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess a new or existing multi-step agent before launch. It helps review control flow, tool side effects, retained information, and conditions for stopping.
Why use it?
A working demo does not show whether an agent will stay reliable, affordable, and safe in real use. This review turns likely failures into a ranked list of fixes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pm-agentops plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess a new or existing multi-step agent before launch. It helps review control flow, tool side effects, retained information, and conditions for stopping.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/agent-design-review
About the project

PM Skills is a collection of plain-Markdown instructions that teach AI assistants structured methods for handling professional, personal, and life-admin tasks. People use it with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex, and other supported agents for work such as writing product requirements, reviewing documents, or planning difficult situations.

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills · 1,449 stars · on GitHub · mohitagw15856.github.io

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill agent-design-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-agentops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,060 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 $0.00091 $0.01060
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00424
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00106

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9e0a4a44d692, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-design-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 2d 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.

plugins/pm-agentops/skills/agent-design-review/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Design Review Skill

Most agents don't fail because the model is weak — they fail because the design lets them loop, call the wrong tool, lose the thread across steps, or burn tokens with no stopping rule. This skill reviews an agent's architecture against the decisions that actually determine reliability, and ranks the fixes — so "it works in the demo but not in prod" becomes a specific list of changes. (Writing a new agent spec? Use agent-spec.)

Working from a brief

Given a sketch ("a research agent that searches, reads, and writes a report"), deliver the full review anyway — infer the likely control flow and tools, label the inference, and flag what to confirm. Never withhold the review for missing detail.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided (else infer and label):

  • What the agent does — its goal, and what a successful run produces.
  • Control flow — single prompt, plan-then-execute, ReAct loop, or multi-agent; and the stopping condition.
  • Tools & actions — what it can call, and which actions have side effects (write, send, pay).
  • Memory & context — what state carries across steps, and how context is kept in budget.
  • Constraints — latency, cost per run, and the trust boundary (untrusted input? real-world actions?).

Output Format

Agent Review: [agent]

1. Summary — will this be reliable in production? The top 3 risks and the single change that helps most.

2. Findings by dimension — for each, what's sound and what's fragile:

Dimension Finding Severity Fix
Control flow no max-steps / no progress check → loops High step budget + "am I making progress?" check + halt
Tool use overlapping tools confuse selection Med fewer, sharply-described tools; allowlist
Context full history re-sent each step → cost + drift High summarise/scope memory per step
Failure handling one tool error aborts the run Med retry/backoff + graceful degradation
Safety acts without confirmation on writes High human/confirm gate on side-effecting actions

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. 2d ago First seen · 83 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 9e0a4a44d692

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-design-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills (1,449 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,060 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-12.

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