kaithoughtarchitect

Simplicity Critic — Design agent for Claude Code

Design community

Adversarial review of implementation plans and designs for over-engineering.

How to install Simplicity Critic

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/kaithoughtarchitect-toppingout-simplicity-critic.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaithoughtarchitect/toppingout/HEAD/agents/simplicity-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/kaithoughtarchitect-toppingout-simplicity-critic.md

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

What Simplicity Critic does

name: simplicity-critic description: Adversarial review of implementation plans and designs for over-engineering. Attacks scope, abstraction count, and parallel-system creep, and sketches the simplest design that meets the stated requirements. Complements plan-validator, that agent asks "is this feasible against the codebase?"; this one asks "is this more than we need?". Typical triggers include a STANDARD/FULL job plan (`PLAN.md`) or a project blueprint ready for its cold read, a blueprint

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