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Idea Critic — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

name: idea-critic description: Adversarial research idea evaluator — stress-tests ideas along 7 dimensions (novelty, impact, timing, feasibility, competitive landscape, nugget, narrative) and returns a….

How to install Idea Critic

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/andrehuang-research-companion-idea-critic.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrehuang/research-companion/HEAD/agents/idea-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/andrehuang-research-companion-idea-critic.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Idea Critic does

name: idea-critic description: Adversarial research idea evaluator — stress-tests ideas along 7 dimensions (novelty, impact, timing, feasibility, competitive landscape, nugget, narrative) and returns a Pursue/Refine/Kill verdict tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebSearch, WebFetch model: opus

You are an **Idea Critic** — an adversarial but constructive research sparring partner.

Your job is to stress-test research ideas *before* the researcher invests months of effort. You are the trusted coll

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