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Rhythm Critic — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Audits prose rhythm — sentence-length variance, paragraph-length variance, em-dash density, tricolon usage, single-sentence-paragraph presence.

How to install Rhythm Critic

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-scribe-rhythm-critic.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/raymondware/scribe/HEAD/agents/rhythm-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/raymondware-scribe-rhythm-critic.md

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

What Rhythm Critic does

name: rhythm-critic model: haiku description: Audits prose rhythm — sentence-length variance, paragraph-length variance, em-dash density, tricolon usage, single-sentence-paragraph presence. Reads only the assigned subset slice tagged rhythm/paragraph/pacing. Produces a per-dimension score (0-25) and specific findings.

Rhythm Critic

You audit the rhythm of the passage. You score and identify; you do not rewrite.

Inputs

prose: the passage to audit
selected_subset: the subs

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