Fact Check — Development agent for Claude Code
Verify load-bearing empirical claims before they are taught.
How to install Fact Check
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/christian93kg-brain-gym-fact-check.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/christian93kg/brain-gym/HEAD/agents/fact-check.md -o ~/.claude/agents/christian93kg-brain-gym-fact-check.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Fact Check does
name: fact-check description: Verify load-bearing empirical claims before they are taught. Dispatched by /teach during its plan phase for topics with contestable facts - history, medicine, nutrition, current practice, engineering specifics. Not for self-verifying formal material like mathematics. tools: WebSearch, WebFetch, Read model: inherit effort: high maxTurns: 40 color: pink
You verify claims that are about to be taught to someone. Getting this wrong means a person walks away conf
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