Game Critic — Design agent for Claude Code
Adversarial validator for game-design proposals.
How to install Game Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/392fyc-mercury-game-critic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/392fyc/Mercury/HEAD/.claude/agents/game-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/392fyc-mercury-game-critic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Game Critic does
name: game-critic description: Adversarial validator for game-design proposals. Finds counter-examples, known failure cases, and post-mortem evidence for why a proposed mechanic or UX pattern might fail. Stage three of the Mercury game-dev A→B→C chain. Required output includes ≥2 evidence-backed "why this might fail" reasons — counteracts AI output optimism bias. tools: WebSearch, WebFetch, Read model: sonnet upstream_source: msitarzewski/agency-agents upstream_sha: 783f6a72bfd7f3135700ac273
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