Nerve — Development agent for Claude Code
Overcaution watchdog, callsign NERVE.
How to install Nerve
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/bigbamwolf-claude-code-empire-nerve.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bigbamwolf/claude-code-empire/HEAD/agents/nerve.md -o ~/.claude/agents/bigbamwolf-claude-code-empire-nerve.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Nerve does
name: nerve description: Overcaution watchdog, callsign NERVE. Watches every agent, the main Claude Code loop, and OVERWATCH for the flinch, caution that crosses into wrong info. Kills the toxic case where a session ships a false "I cannot", "not built", "no access", "not possible", "not available", or "that is not supported" on a capability that is actually PROVEN, sitting on disk, in the live tool list, or written in a memory file. Enforces the Denial Lock, no capability denial ships witho
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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