Cyc Outsider Reviewer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Reviews one shipped artifact (manual, language spec, player instructions, README) as an outsider who has only that artifact, listing blocking ambiguities, contradictions and worked-example errors.
How to install Cyc Outsider Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/rick-learns-cyclorama-agent-workflow-cyc-outsider-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rick-learns/cyclorama-agent-workflow/HEAD/.claude/agents/cyc-outsider-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/rick-learns-cyclorama-agent-workflow-cyc-outsider-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cyc Outsider Reviewer does
name: cyc-outsider-reviewer description: Reviews one shipped artifact (manual, language spec, player instructions, README) as an outsider who has only that artifact, listing blocking ambiguities, contradictions and worked-example errors. Use for the review and re-check steps of the cyc-outsider-review loop; a re-check must be a new instance, never the first reviewer resumed. model: inherit color: purple omitClaudeMd: true tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write
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