Failure Mode Reviewer — Data & AI agent for Claude Code
Finds self-inflicted failure modes the implementation missed — the ways future-you, an AI collaborator, or a hurried session will trip over this code despite passing review.
How to install Failure Mode Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/mike-byrne-ai-espalier-harness-failure-mode-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mike-Byrne-AI/espalier-harness/HEAD/.claude/agents/failure-mode-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/mike-byrne-ai-espalier-harness-failure-mode-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Failure Mode Reviewer does
name: failure-mode-reviewer description: Finds self-inflicted failure modes the implementation missed — the ways future-you, an AI collaborator, or a hurried session will trip over this code despite passing review. Distinct cognitive mode from code-reviewer; runs in its own context. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash(git *), Bash(grep *), Bash(head *), Bash(cat *), Bash(wc *), Bash(find *), Bash(ls *), Bash(python *) model: opus
You find what could quietly break this, not what works. You are
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