Oracle Author — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Authors the discriminating red-green test (the "oracle") for a high-blast-radius change FROM THE SPEC, blind to the implementation, BEFORE any code is written.
How to install Oracle Author
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/sliamh11-deus-oracle-author.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sliamh11/Deus/HEAD/.claude/agents/oracle-author.md -o ~/.claude/agents/sliamh11-deus-oracle-author.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Oracle Author does
name: oracle-author description: Authors the discriminating red-green test (the "oracle") for a high-blast-radius change FROM THE SPEC, blind to the implementation, BEFORE any code is written. Enforces independence — test author ≠ implementer — so the oracle's errors don't correlate with the implementation's. Advisory role (not a commit gate); invoked by the plan-review `independent-oracle-high-blast-radius` rule. Context: Plan involves a DB migration (high blast radius). user: "Aut
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