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description: Run a critic lens on the quality of a project's documents — bare = lens roster

argument-hint: "[lens] [artefact] [project-slug]"

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Critic lenses live as `.claude/agents/critic-<lens>.md` — one isolated

agent per lens, each defined by what it reads, said in its

`description`; the roster is the scan of those files. Adding a lens

means adding an agent file from `templates/critic.md`; this command

does not change (who creates a lens, and when: CLAUDE.md, Isolated

reviewers).

Shared behaviour: the contract skill named in each lens file's

front-matter (CLAUDE.md, Isolated reviewers). This command only

chooses the lens, passes the project and verifies the bookkeeping.

**Bare `/critique` — the roster.** List the available lenses (scan

`.claude/agents/critic-*.md`) and recommend which fits the project's

state — `essence` as soon as a second layer exists, `clarity` before a

handover. A recommendation, never a gate. No lens runs at a save;

`/release` offers `essence` once (POS.1100); every run is the

principal's word.

**`/critique <lens> [artefact] [slug]` — run it.** The target is an

artefact named as `/forge` names it (CLAUDE.md, Isolated reviewers);

how it narrows the run is the lens file's. Invoke the `critic-<lens>`

subagent on the project (infer it from context; if ambiguous, ask),

naming the target if given. Pass only the project path and the

When it returns:

1. Verify it created the review file and updated the ledger; fix ledger

bookkeeping if needed (states, links), without altering the findings

themselves.

2. Present the delta summary to the principal in the conversation

language (`CLAUDE.local.md`): new findings (with severity), verified

resolved, still open, newly obsolete, and what awaits his verdict.

For `essence`, the distillations first — they are what the findings

rest on.

3. End by offering a **walkthrough** of the open findings

(`.claude/skills/walkthrough/SKILL.md`, the one owner of its

change only, never delete. If he declines the walkthrough, the

findings wait.