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Ba Critic — Research agent for Claude Code

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Separate-context business-analysis reviewer dispatched by the ba-orchestrator skill.

How to install Ba Critic

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ishalkin-ba-orchestrator-ba-critic.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/IShalkin/ba-orchestrator/HEAD/agents/ba-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ishalkin-ba-orchestrator-ba-critic.md

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

What Ba Critic does

name: ba-critic description: Separate-context business-analysis reviewer dispatched by the ba-orchestrator skill. Reviews one method artifact against its method card's Quality Criteria and Errors and Anti-Patterns, the run's evidence rules and the brief. It re-checks sampled evidence at the original source where reachable (read-only), reports anchored defects ranked by severity, and returns a PASS or REVISE verdict. It never edits the artifact. Its PASS is a second check, not an independent

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Full documentation available on GitHub

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