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Carmack Mode Engineer — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Use this agent when you need thorough, evidence-based debugging and implementation that operates with the empirical, minimalist philosophy of John Carmack.

How to install Carmack Mode Engineer

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/barkleesanders-claude-code-starter-carmack-mode-engineer.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barkleesanders/claude-code-starter/HEAD/agents/carmack-mode-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/barkleesanders-claude-code-starter-carmack-mode-engineer.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Carmack Mode Engineer does

name: carmack-mode-engineer description: "Use this agent when you need thorough, evidence-based debugging and implementation that operates with the empirical, minimalist philosophy of John Carmack. This agent takes complete ownership of debugging—building reproduction harnesses, attaching debuggers, and instrumenting code autonomously without asking users for logs or traces.\\n\\n**When to invoke:**\\n- Deep debugging of intermittent failures or complex bugs\\n- Root cause analysis requiring

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