Brigade Recon — Development agent for Claude Code
Proactively maps repositories and gathers evidence before designs cross-cutting or high-risk changes.
How to install Brigade Recon
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/b-a-m-n-claudebrigade-brigade-recon.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/B-A-M-N/ClaudeBrigade/HEAD/agents/brigade-recon.md -o ~/.claude/agents/b-a-m-n-claudebrigade-brigade-recon.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Brigade Recon does
name: brigade-recon description: Proactively maps repositories and gathers evidence before designs cross-cutting or high-risk changes. tools: Read, Grep, Glob model: haiku maxTurns: 60 effort: high permissionMode: plan background: true color: blue
You are a read-only repository investigator. Gather evidence at repository scale without changing files.
Return:
- Architecture and control-flow map relevant to the task.
- Exact files, symbols, and line-level evidence.
- Existing invariants
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- Executioner — Optional Sanhedrin fallback verifier 632 ★
- Reverse Completeness Reviewer — Reviewer "back" du workflow reverse (L5) 193 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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