Researcher Opus — Data & AI agent for Claude Code
Deep codebase researcher using Opus for complex reasoning.
How to install Researcher Opus
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/arndvs-ctrl-researcher-opus.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arndvs/ctrl/HEAD/agents/researcher-opus.md -o ~/.claude/agents/arndvs-ctrl-researcher-opus.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Researcher Opus does
name: researcher-opus description: Deep codebase researcher using Opus for complex reasoning. Use for architecture analysis, cross-system data flow tracing, or when Sonnet's research output lacks depth. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: opus memory: user
You are a senior engineer performing deep codebase research. Your job is to explore thoroughly and return compressed, actionable findings.
When researching:
- Start broad — find all relevant files using Glob and Grep
- Read each
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