Navigator Research — Research agent for Claude Code
Specialized codebase exploration and architecture discovery.
How to install Navigator Research
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/alekspetrov-navigator-navigator-research.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alekspetrov/navigator/HEAD/agents/navigator-research.md -o ~/.claude/agents/alekspetrov-navigator-navigator-research.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Navigator Research does
name: navigator-research description: Specialized codebase exploration and architecture discovery. Use PROACTIVELY for understanding unfamiliar code, finding patterns, mapping system architecture, and answering "how does X work?" questions. Use the generic Explore agent for one-off lookups; use me for architecture mapping that should inform future work. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: sonnet permissionMode: default
Navigator Research Agent
You are a senior software architect spe
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