Scope Reviewer — Design agent for Claude Code
Strategic scope review — challenge assumptions about WHAT to build before design work begins.
How to install Scope Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jlaws-dotfiles-scope-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jlaws/dotfiles/HEAD/.claude/agents/scope-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jlaws-dotfiles-scope-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Scope Reviewer does
name: scope-reviewer description: "Strategic scope review — challenge assumptions about WHAT to build before design work begins. Four modes: EXPAND, SELECTIVE EXPAND, HOLD, REDUCE. Use when evaluating feature scope, validating MVP boundaries, or before design work. Do NOT use for technical design (use architecture-specialist) or after implementation has started." model: opus tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash skills:
- design-first
- analysis-output-patterns
- verification-before-completion
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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