Test Strategy Critic — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Use this agent after senior-test-engineer produces a test suite, or when a test suite is failing intermittently, or when coverage is high but bugs keep escaping.
How to install Test Strategy Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/lneninger-claude-agentic-auto-improve-test-strategy-critic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lneninger/claude-agentic-auto-improve/HEAD/.claude/agents/test-strategy-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/lneninger-claude-agentic-auto-improve-test-strategy-critic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Test Strategy Critic does
name: test-strategy-critic description: "Use this agent after senior-test-engineer produces a test suite, or when a test suite is failing intermittently, or when coverage is high but bugs keep escaping. Reviews test *strategy*, not test syntax — what's worth testing, where mocks hide real bugs, and where integration boundaries actually matter. Distinct from senior-test-engineer (writes tests) — this one decides whether the tests are valuable.\n\nExamples:\n- After senior-test-engineer delive
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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