What problem does it solve?
Engineering deliverables for DSP, acoustic, hardware, structural, and test domains often contain unsubstantiated claims, policy compliance violations, or cross-domain inconsistencies that slip through standard review processes, leading to irreversible mistakes, costly rework, or failed stakeholder approvals.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Policy-Enforced Provenance Checks: Automatically enforces POLICY-PROV-001 v1.7 gates C1-C10, L-grade completeness standards, and irreversible action rules to prevent unverified data from being locked into irreversible decisions.
- Domain-Specific Error Scanning: Detects common error patterns across acoustics, DSP, hardware, structural, and test domains, including fixed-point overflow risks, unverified mesh convergence, and missing thermal design validation.
- Cross-Domain Consistency Verification: Validates alignment between interconnected subsystems (e.g., acoustics cavity volume matches structural internal dimensions, DSP MIPS requirements fit processor capabilities) to prevent integration failures.
- Use Case: Use this skill to review a new hardware prototype bringup guide before it is shared with the CTO, to catch unsafe JTAG connection sequences, missing ERC/DRC waivers, and unverified component derating.
Quick Start
Use the critic skill to perform a full adversarial review of the attached DSP filter design document and flag any compliance violations or unsubstantiated claims before it is submitted to the engineering lead.