reviewer:init

reviewer:init is a skill for Claude Code from shdennlin/agent-plugins. It costs 41 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup skill that adds reviewer rules to an OpenSpec project configuration, so generated specifications follow known review criteria. It can also derive candidate rules from repeated findings in review history and asks the user to confirm them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Initializing or previewing reviewer rules, importing confirmed patterns from review history, and removing duplicate rules from the configuration.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated review problems by recording agreed standards where the specification-generating tools can use them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the reviewer plugin — 3 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Initializing or previewing reviewer rules, importing confirmed patterns from review history, and removing duplicate rules from the configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shdennlin/agent-plugins/init
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 shdennlin/agent-plugins --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shdennlin/agent-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install reviewer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 4 commands.

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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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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 432 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 $0.00041 $0.00432
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00173
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 146321359dcc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reviewer:init 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.

plugins/reviewer/skills/init/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Init Reviewer Rules

Inject reviewer rules into your project's openspec/config.yaml so that specs generated by OpenSpec tooling satisfy the reviewer's criteria.

Usage

$init
$init --dry-run
$init --from-history

Process

  1. Determine the rules target: openspec/config.yaml if present, else .claude/reviewer/rules.yaml. If falling back to the portable target, confirmation of that target happens in the main conversation (via AskUserQuestion) before dispatch — not inside the agent.
  2. Read the reviewer rules template
  3. Compare against existing rules (dedup by exact match)
  4. Append only new rules (or preview in dry-run mode)
  5. Report what was added
  6. With --from-history: skip the static template — read the review findings history (openspec/reviews/history.jsonl, else .claude/reviewer/history.jsonl), cluster findings recurring across ≥2 changes into candidate rules, confirm each with the user (AskUserQuestion, multiSelect), and pass only confirmed rules to the agent as the template. Clustering and confirmation happen in the main conversation, NOT in the agent. The same pass flags existing rules for retirement — candidates are rules whose finding class never appears in history or that are superseded by a new candidate (never rules that went quiet after injection: that silence means they work). Removals get a separate AskUserQuestion and are applied with Edit in the main conversation; the injection agent stays append-only.

Agent Dispatch

Use the companion init-reviewer.md in this directory as the agent prompt. The agent will cd to the git root automatically. Provide it with:

  • Whether dry_run mode is enabled
  • The full content of the reviewer rules template
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 43 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 146321359dcc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reviewer:init is a skill published in the GitHub repository shdennlin/agent-plugins (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 432 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-11.

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