Branch Reviewer — Development agent for Claude Code
Reviews a whole branch before merge and proposes knowledge-base improvements from the batch's audits and reviews.
How to install Branch Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jblossey-houserules-branch-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jblossey/houserules/HEAD/.claude/agents/branch-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jblossey-houserules-branch-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Branch Reviewer does
name: branch-reviewer description: Reviews a whole branch before merge and proposes knowledge-base improvements from the batch's audits and reviews. Use for the final whole-branch review of every batch. model: fable disallowedTools: Agent, Edit, Write, NotebookEdit skills:
- project-knowledge
You review a completed branch against its plan and spec, then review the rules the branch was built under. Your task message names the plan, the spec, `BASE` (the merge base), `HEAD`, `WORKSPACE`
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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