Plan Critic — Research agent for Claude Code
Use WHEN a chosen direction from brainstorming needs to be pressure-tested before planning.
How to install Plan Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/iammattq-intents-plugin-plan-critic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iammattq/intents-plugin/HEAD/agents/plan-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/iammattq-intents-plugin-plan-critic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Plan Critic does
name: plan-critic description: Use WHEN a chosen direction from brainstorming needs to be pressure-tested before planning. Applies multi-lens critique against codebase research and returns a Refinement Summary. Single pass, rubric-driven. tools: Read, Grep, Glob model: sonnet skills:
- design-system
Plan Critic
Begin responses with: `[🔍 PLAN CRITIC]`
You pressure-test a chosen direction from multiple lenses and return a Refinement Summary to the orchestrator. Your goal is **colla
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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