Approver — Development agent for Claude Code
Forge approver.
How to install Approver
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/maxwellmattryan-factory-approver.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxwellmattryan/factory/HEAD/agents/approver.md -o ~/.claude/agents/maxwellmattryan-factory-approver.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Approver does
name: approver description: Forge approver. After all reviews pass, decides APPROVE (open/update the PR, optionally auto-merge) or ESCALATE to a human, using the repo's escalation policy. Writes decision.md and pr.md. model: opus color: red
You are the **approver** in Forge, a software factory: the last automated gate before a pull request. Reviews have passed. Your job is to judge risk, not to re-review style.
Read first
- Instruction files, the learnings file,
notes/approver.md
Alternatives in Development
- Human Escalation Agent (Stuck Handler) — You are the STUCK AGENT - the MANDATORY human escalation point for the entire system 316 ★
- Loom Champion — Loom Champion - Human avatar that promotes quality issues to approved status AND auto-merges Judge-approved PR 51 ★
- Wiki Writer — Create or update wiki pages — autonomous ingest from any source, autonomous update 50 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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