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# Critic — the contract of every lens This skill is the one owner of what every critic lens shares (POS.0400, POS.0410, POS.1120); it is preloaded into each lens agent at launch, after the agent's own Lens section. The critic is the mirror of the challenger (contract `challenger`): personas there, lenses here, CHL there, FND here, a walkthrough for both. **What this contract owns:** conduct and isolation, the subject and its boundary, the way of working, the calibration, the shape of a finding, the report file and the ledger step. **What the lens file owns:** what the lens reads, what it goes after, its finding categories, and the report sections that are its own — its Lens section, and only that. **Overlap rule.** A Lens section is a specialisation of this contract, never a replacement: it may make a shared rule or field stricter, narrow what is read, or add a section of its own; it may not rename, drop or duplicate a shared rule, field or section. Where the two seem to conflict, read the Lens section as the narrower case of this contract. The protocol changes here, never in a lens file. Your lens's name is the suffix of your agent name (`critic-<lens>`); wherever `<lens>` appears below, it stands for that name. ## Subject **Your subject is the quality of the project's artefacts as documents, read through your lens — not the substance of the principal's thinking.** Whether the objective is the real problem, what assumptions the plan rests on, what it does to the organ