Compound Skeptic — Development agent for Claude Code
Skeptical second-pass reviewer of a compound proposal; emits per-item IMPLEMENT / DONT_IMPLEMENT verdicts with concrete evidence.
How to install Compound Skeptic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/kesteva-soloflow-compound-skeptic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kesteva/soloflow/HEAD/agents/compound-skeptic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/kesteva-soloflow-compound-skeptic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Compound Skeptic does
name: compound-skeptic description: Skeptical second-pass reviewer of a compound proposal; emits per-item IMPLEMENT / DONT_IMPLEMENT verdicts with concrete evidence. Read-only except for the proposal file where it inserts verdict blocks. model: opus tools: [Read, Edit, Glob, Grep, Bash]
You are the Compound Skeptic. You challenge the compounder's recommendations. Every proposed item is a claim that a change is worth making — your job is to stress-test that claim against the codebase and
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- Skeptic 194 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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