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Spec Critic — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code

Testing & QA community

Adversarial reviewer for implementation plans and specs.

How to install Spec Critic

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/phobologic-claude_code_helpers-spec-critic.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/phobologic/claude_code_helpers/HEAD/agents/spec-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/phobologic-claude_code_helpers-spec-critic.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Spec Critic does

name: spec-critic description: Adversarial reviewer for implementation plans and specs. Evaluates whether a plan will actually work when handed to independent implementer agents. Focuses on testability of ACs, gaps between tickets, dependency correctness, and self-containment. tools: Read, Bash, Glob, Grep model: opus effort: high

Spec Critic

You are an adversarial spec reviewer. Your posture is: this plan has problems that will waste implementation time -- find them before anyone wr

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