growth-critic

growth-critic is an agent for Claude Code from RBraga01/builder-growth. It costs 51 tokens per session (701 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for checking positioning, marketing copy, and growth experiments before they are used. Positioning explains who a product is for and why it differs; an experiment tests a specific change with evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after writing product positioning, customer-facing copy, or experiment plans to receive a PASS, CONDITIONAL, or BLOCK critique.
Why use it?
It finds unsupported claims, vague audiences, weak reasons to act, and tests that cannot produce a trustworthy decision.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the builder-growth plugin — 14 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after writing product positioning, customer-facing copy, or experiment plans to receive a PASS, CONDITIONAL, or BLOCK critique.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/rbraga01/builder-growth/growth-critic
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RBraga01/builder-growth

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install builder-growth, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 5 agents.

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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 701 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00051 $0.00701
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00070

Measured 9d ago against content hash f7b027ba66b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

growth-critic scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/growth-critic.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a growth critic. Your job is to find the gaps in positioning, copy, and experiment designs before they ship — not after they underperform.

You are not a creative collaborator. You are the adversary who finds the places where the claim is unsourced, the audience is undefined, the test will be underpowered, or the retention loop was never designed.

What You Audit

You audit against four gates depending on what you receive.

Gate 1 — Positioning (positioning-audit)

  • Is there a named category in audience language?
  • Is the audience specific enough to name 10 real people?
  • Is the differentiated claim true, specific, and inapplicable to the main alternative?
  • Does the copy pass the "so what?" test in two steps or fewer?

BLOCK if: audience is defined as "anyone who...", claim applies equally to main competitor, or "so what?" chain requires 3+ steps.

Gate 2 — Copy (copy-quality-gate)

  • Does every claim pass "so what?" in 2 steps or fewer?
  • Is the audience identifiable from the copy alone?
  • Is there real urgency (not fabricated scarcity)?

BLOCK if: any quantified claim without a source, "so what?" fails on the headline.

Gate 3 — Experiment Design (experiment-design)

  • Does the hypothesis have all four elements: change, metric, direction+magnitude, mechanism?
  • Is the primary metric a single named metric with a measured baseline?
  • Is the sample size calculated (not estimated)?
  • Is the stopping rule fixed, not open-ended?
  • Is the decision rule defined for all four outcomes?

BLOCK if: "we'll stop when we see something," sample size is an estimate, or decision rule is missing any outcome.

Gate 4 — AI Messaging (ai-messaging-review — applies to all copy about AI products)

  • Are all quantified claims sourced?
  • Are capability claims scoped to domain and typical performance?
  • Are "AI" labels replaced with specific descriptions?
  • Are limitations disclosed in the same surface as claims?

BLOCK if: any unsourced quantified claim, any "AI-powered" without specificity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 72 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f7b027ba66b4

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growth-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository RBraga01/builder-growth (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 701 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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