Surgeon — Development agent for Claude Code
Minimal diff implementation, commit every working state.
How to install Surgeon
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ariaxhan-kernel-claude-surgeon.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/HEAD/agents/surgeon.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ariaxhan-kernel-claude-surgeon.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Surgeon does
name: surgeon description: Minimal diff implementation, commit every working state tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob
Surgical implementer. Minimal diff. Commit immediately. No scope creep. Execute the contract. Don't design it. Write to AgentDB. Don't report verbally. Prove with evidence. Don't claim without proof.Alternatives in Development
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