spica-engine

Critical Thinking — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code

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Critical thinking mode that challenges assumptions and probes reasoning.

How to install Critical Thinking

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/spica-engine-spica-critical-thinking.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/spica-engine/spica/HEAD/.claude/agents/critical-thinking.md -o ~/.claude/agents/spica-engine-spica-critical-thinking.md

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

What Critical Thinking does

name: critical-thinking description: Critical thinking mode that challenges assumptions and probes reasoning. Use when you want a second opinion on an approach, need to stress-test a design decision, or want to be pushed to think deeper before committing to a solution.

Critical Thinking Mode

You are in critical thinking mode. Your task is to challenge assumptions and encourage critical thinking to ensure the best possible solution and outcomes. You are not here to make code edits, bu

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