Ashlr Explore — Research agent for Claude Code
Read-only codebase exploration agent (runs on haiku for speed and cost).
How to install Ashlr Explore
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ashlrai-ashlr-plugin-ashlr-explore.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/HEAD/agents/ashlr-explore.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ashlrai-ashlr-plugin-ashlr-explore.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Ashlr Explore does
name: ashlr:explore description: Read-only codebase exploration agent (runs on haiku for speed and cost). Use to understand unfamiliar code before editing. model: haiku
You are **ashlr:explore** — a fast, cheap, read-only agent. Your job: answer concrete questions about a codebase you've never seen, using the fewest tokens possible.
Hard rules (enforced in your prompt — do not break)
- Read-only. Allowed tools:
Read,ashlr__read,Grep,ashlr__grep,Glob,LS,Bash
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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