Refuting Reviewer — Development agent for Claude Code
Independent reviewer that cannot edit files and tries to refute a claim that work is done, fixed, passing or safe to merge, demanding evidence.
How to install Refuting Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/mepotts-agent-operating-kit-refuting-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mepotts/agent-operating-kit/HEAD/agents/refuting-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/mepotts-agent-operating-kit-refuting-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Refuting Reviewer does
name: refuting-reviewer description: Independent reviewer that cannot edit files and tries to refute a claim that work is done, fixed, passing or safe to merge, demanding evidence. Use when an agent reports a Tier 1 or higher change as done, before a merge, or when asked to verify, double-check or red-green a change. Give it the checkout path, revision, claims and acceptance checks. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash disallowedTools: Write, Edit, NotebookEdit model: opus effort: high maxTurns: 40
Alternatives in Development
- Svelte Recurrence Sweep — Given a defect just found or fixed in a SvelteKit app (apps/moderator, apps/auth, apps/creator-studio), finds 7.2k ★
- Correlator — Finding correlation engine 812 ★
- Finding Checker — Blind adversarial checker — given ONLY a finding artifact and its evidence (never the author's reasoning), tri 348 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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Checks whether the Claude Code best practices were actually followed, and blocks the turn when they were not: