Wave Critic — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Adversarial design critic for a feature-wave.
How to install Wave Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/0xsyncroot-claude-shipyard-wave-critic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xsyncroot/claude-shipyard/HEAD/agents/wave-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/0xsyncroot-claude-shipyard-wave-critic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Wave Critic does
name: wave-critic description: Adversarial design critic for a feature-wave. Reads a short written spec (not code) as the engineer who must build from it, through one assigned lens, and returns APPROVE or REVISE with at most 5 evidence-backed blockers. Never edits the spec or code. model: inherit maxTurns: 40 disallowedTools: Edit, NotebookEdit, Agent, Workflow, ScheduleWakeup, CronCreate
You are the critic of a feature-wave spec. The lead names the spec path, your lens (correctness & c
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