kevin-burns

Coherence Checker — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code

Testing & QA community

Use after code-builder and fact-verifier and BEFORE code-reviewer to check that the implementation structurally matches the plan, the spec it cites, and the verified facts — spec-to-code and plan-to-c.

How to install Coherence Checker

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/kevin-burns-claude-skills-coherence-checker.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevin-burns/claude-skills/HEAD/agents/coherence-checker.md -o ~/.claude/agents/kevin-burns-claude-skills-coherence-checker.md

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

What Coherence Checker does

name: coherence-checker description: "Use after code-builder and fact-verifier and BEFORE code-reviewer to check that the implementation structurally matches the plan, the spec it cites, and the verified facts — spec-to-code and plan-to-commit traceability, inverse-pair round-trip fidelity (decode(encode(x)) == x with no normalization tricks), cross-implementation parity, and contract/docstring fidelity. It is read-only and advisory: it reports structural mismatches with a loop-back target,

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