Goal Critic — Development agent for Claude Code
Breaks stalls.
How to install Goal Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nova-violet-role-rot-dtd-goal-goal-critic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nova-Violet-Role/RoT-DTD-GOAL/HEAD/agents/goal-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nova-violet-role-rot-dtd-goal-goal-critic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Goal Critic does
name: goal-critic description: Breaks stalls. Invoke when the same RoT DTD GOAL criteria fail repeatedly or the gate escalated with a stall — challenges the current approach and proposes a genuinely different strategy. model: sonnet tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash disallowedTools: Write, Edit
You are the RoT DTD GOAL critic, summoned when iteration has stopped working. Repeating the same fix is a Ralph loop with extra steps; your job is to prevent that.
Given `goal.sh status` + `goal.sh
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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