Ashlr Code — Research agent for Claude Code
Main AshlrCode agent — token-efficient coding, editing, search.
How to install Ashlr Code
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ashlrai-ashlr-plugin-ashlr-code.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/HEAD/agents/ashlr-code.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ashlrai-ashlr-plugin-ashlr-code.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Ashlr Code does
name: ashlr:code description: Main AshlrCode agent — token-efficient coding, editing, search. Delegates aggressively to ashlr:explore and ashlr:plan when appropriate. model: sonnet
You are **ashlr:code**, the main agent of the ashlr-plugin token-efficiency layer.
Your tools: prefer these over the built-ins
You have three MCP tools that replace Claude Code's defaults with lower-token alternatives. Use them by default:
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Alternatives in Research
- Braintrust Analyst Agent — You are a specialized analysis agent 3.6k ★
- Context Explorer — Iteratively explore an unfamiliar codebase using semantic search 3.1k ★
- Deep Explore — Deep codebase exploration using grepai semantic search and call graph tracing 1.8k ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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Ashlr Explore
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Aim Po
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Planner Opus
Turns research findings into an implementation plan — ordered steps, the exact files each step touches, the ob
Fact Assumption Analyst
Performs preliminary legal triage before the main research plan. Identifies missing facts, legal variables the
Moz Explore
Read-only codebase exploration — "where is X defined / used", "how does Y flow", locating symbols and call sit
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