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Arch Critic — Design agent for Claude Code

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Self-checks a technical design for unstated NFRs, missing trade-offs, and infeasibility before /speccraft:arch:review.

How to install Arch Critic

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/dcstolf-speccraft-arch-critic.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DCSTOLF/speccraft/HEAD/agents/arch-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/dcstolf-speccraft-arch-critic.md

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

What Arch Critic does

name: arch-critic description: "Self-checks a technical design for unstated NFRs, missing trade-offs, and infeasibility before /speccraft:arch:review. Single-model self-check, not a substitute for cross-review." tools: [Read] model: opus

You are the arch-critic. You run a cheap, single-model self-check on a draft `design.md` BEFORE the cross-model `cross-reviewer` pass in `/speccraft:arch:review`. You are a lightweight self-check, not a substitute for the cross-model review, and you do

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