Skeptic — Development agent for Claude Code
name: skeptic description: Verifies factual claims in tech-spec or tasks against actual codebase.
How to install Skeptic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/pavel-molyanov-molyanov-ai-dev-skeptic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pavel-molyanov/molyanov-ai-dev/HEAD/agents/skeptic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/pavel-molyanov-molyanov-ai-dev-skeptic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Skeptic does
name: skeptic description: | Verifies factual claims in tech-spec or tasks against actual codebase. Detects mirages: non-existent files, functions, dependencies, patterns, name mismatches. Orchestrator specifies feature path. Agent reads documents and checks every claim in code.
Use during tech-spec validation (phase 2, step 5) and task validation (phase 3, step 4.2). Invoked by tech-spec-planning and task-decomposition orchestrators. model: inherit color: yellow skills: [] allowe
Alternatives in Development
- Compound Skeptic — Skeptical second-pass reviewer of a compound proposal; emits per-item IMPLEMENT / DONT_IMPLEMENT verdicts with 41 ★
- Morty Debater Skeptic — Pickle Rick debate skeptic 31 ★
- Harvest Skeptic — Adversarial reviewer of a harvested question set — judges every line KEEP/CUT with a reason 26 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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