Critic

An agent that reviews a plan before implementation and writes structured feedback to the review delta schema.

Critics run in parallel during the code loop's Phase 2.5. Each critic reads the current plan and writes a structured review to reviews/*.review.json. Critic wiring comes from .closedloop-ai/settings/critic-gates.json, generated by the bootstrap plugin.

Critics improve plans before code is written. Judges grade outputs after code is written. They complement each other.