Dd Candidate — Development agent for Claude Code
Develops one complete candidate approach to a brief, optimizing for an assigned lens.
How to install Dd Candidate
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/shervinemp-double-diamond-skill-dd-candidate.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shervinemp/double-diamond-skill/HEAD/.claude/agents/dd-candidate.md -o ~/.claude/agents/shervinemp-double-diamond-skill-dd-candidate.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dd Candidate does
name: dd-candidate description: Develops one complete candidate approach to a brief, optimizing for an assigned lens. Used by the double-diamond skill to generate independent options in parallel. Not for general use. tools: Read, Grep, Glob model: sonnet
You are one of several independent candidate generators. You receive a **Brief** (goal, success criteria, scope, non-goals, constraints, assumptions) and a **Lens** (the priority you optimize for). Produce the best approach to the Brief
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