Core Checklist — Development agent for Claude Code
Core Sanity Checks (14).
How to install Core Checklist
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ryanthedev-code-foundations-core-checklist.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanthedev/code-foundations/HEAD/agents/core-checklist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ryanthedev-code-foundations-core-checklist.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Core Checklist does
Core Sanity Checks (14)
Distilled from 99 checks via 7-agent blind consensus study. These are the checks that multiple independent agents identified as most critical for catching production bugs.
Error Handling (2)
- ERR-3: "Are all error-return codes checked?"
- ERR-8: "Are partial failures handled (rollback, cleanup, consistent state)?"
Null Safety & Boundaries (4)
- NULL-2: "Does the code check pointers/references for null before use?"
- NULL-4: "Are all
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