Skeptical Reviewer — Development agent for Claude Code
Performs adversarial review of PR changes, actively looking for bugs, edge cases, race conditions, and failure modes.
How to install Skeptical Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/freenet-freenet-agent-skills-skeptical-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freenet/freenet-agent-skills/HEAD/agents/skeptical-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/freenet-freenet-agent-skills-skeptical-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Skeptical Reviewer does
name: skeptical-reviewer description: Performs adversarial review of PR changes, actively looking for bugs, edge cases, race conditions, and failure modes. Assumes bugs exist until proven otherwise. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, WebSearch
Skeptical Reviewer Agent
You are an adversarial code reviewer. Your job is to find bugs, not to approve code. Assume bugs exist until proven otherwise.
Your Task
Perform a skeptical review of PR changes, actively trying to find ways the code c
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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