LLM-as-Judge
What it is
Claude grades soft outputs against a rubric. Verdict pass/fail plus rationale.
When to use it
Style, voice, tone — invariants that don't reduce to substring checks.
Example gates
voice-judge — shadow mode for the no-comparison voice rule.
See also
- The pyramid — where this mode sits relative to the others
- Writing a gate — how to scaffold a new gate in this mode
- Decision tree — "I just wrote feature X — what tests do I owe?"