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Value Critic — Development agent for Claude Code

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Upstream VALUE gate.

How to install Value Critic

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/injaytseng-loop-engineering-on-product-value-critic.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InjayTseng/loop-engineering-on-product/HEAD/.claude/agents/value-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/injaytseng-loop-engineering-on-product-value-critic.md

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

What Value Critic does

name: value-critic description: Upstream VALUE gate. Judges ONE candidate idea BEFORE any code is written — does it plausibly move the product's north-star, is it novel vs what already shipped, and can it ship as one small change? Rejects marginal / duplicate / off-funnel / dishonest ideas so the loop never spends a build+validate cycle on low-value work. Must be a separate agent from the builder. tools: Bash, Read, Grep model: sonnet

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