critic

critic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from scott-fryxell/brayness. It costs 71 tokens per session (301 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification process that checks work with simple, repeatable tests before more expensive reviews or declaring it finished.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run structural checks such as builds, tests, and expected-item checks before using an automated reviewer or completing a task.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of accepting work that does not build, pass its tests, or contain the expected result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to run structural checks such as builds, tests, and expected-item checks before using an automated reviewer or completing a task.

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

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 301 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 $0.00071 $0.00301
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00030

Measured 11d ago against content hash f15f7b3a62a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 11d 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/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Critic

Most errors are caught by cheap checks. Order all verification cheapest-first so expensive confidence only runs on survivors.

Hierarchy

  1. Deterministic / structural (free, always run): does it build, does npm run test pass, is the expected output actually present, did the file write. Check the thing the task promised, programmatically where possible.
  2. Cheap review: read your own diff/output once, against the goal, and state plainly what is missing or wrong.
  3. Expensive judgment (only if the cheap tiers passed): LLM-style quality review, cross-checking choices, art direction. Spend tokens only on survivors.

Rules

  • Always run the cheap tier first; a failing cheap check is the next thing to fix.
  • The producer never grades its own homework - for anything that matters, review from evidence, not from intent.
  • If an expensive check would be skipped under pressure, say so instead of quietly dropping verification.
  • One failing check is a reason to stop and fix, not to proceed and note it.
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. 11d ago First seen · 22 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A f15f7b3a62a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository scott-fryxell/brayness (120 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 301 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 2026-08-30.

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