karen_strikes_back: a five-persona review pod that tears your repo apart

Code review by one model is one opinion. Code review by five models with different personalities, priorities, and axes to grind finds things no single pass catches. That’s the premise of karen_strikes_back: a fleet of five Hermes Agent profiles — the name is the joke, Karen is the orchestrator and her workers are the ones who actually strike.

Each worker is a distinct lens with its own SOUL.md persona and pinned model config. critic is blunt and evidence-led, citing file:line for every defect — SQLi, missing authz, broken idempotency. bsneng reviews like a fresh Masters grad who’s read every Nielsen heuristic and will tell you which one you violated. poweruser is the insufferable PC enthusiast who checks whether every knob is exposed and will block shipping over telemetry-on-by-default. struggler is the self-deprecating advocate for users who bounce off jargon, hidden steps, and “just know” flows. Karen fans the repo out to all four in parallel via delegate_task, runs her own heuristic eval, then dedupes and severity-ranks everything into one combined report.

Features:

• One command reviews a whole GitHub repo across four adversarial dimensions at once
• Each persona runs in an isolated session with the absolute repo path in context
• Combined severity-ranked output — deduplicated across lenses, not four separate essays
• Personas are top-level peers under ~/.hermes/profiles/, not tied to any single host profile
• Model pinning per profile (moonshotai/kimi-k3 via the nous provider), adjustable to whatever you run
• Run any single persona directly when you only want one lens

Brutal by design. Source: github.com/rahlquist/karen_strikes_back