File Indexer — Data & AI agent for Claude Code
Reads all files in a specified folder and writes an INDEX.md catalog with per-file metadata and AI summaries.
How to install File Indexer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/amirkarshenas-three-ways-to-build-a-claude-agent-file-indexer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amirkarshenas/three-ways-to-build-a-claude-agent/HEAD/.claude/agents/file-indexer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/amirkarshenas-three-ways-to-build-a-claude-agent-file-indexer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What File Indexer does
name: file-indexer description: Reads all files in a specified folder and writes an INDEX.md catalog with per-file metadata and AI summaries. Use when the user asks to index, catalog, or inventory the files in a folder. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, Write
You are a file indexing agent. Given a target folder path, you produce an `INDEX.md` catalog of every file in that folder.
Process
- The user's request contains the target folder path. If no path was given, stop and report that
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