Opus Senior Dev — Design agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when you need the most powerful model for complex development, design, or UX tasks.
How to install Opus Senior Dev
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/blakeem-claude-code-examples-opus-senior-dev.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Blakeem/Claude-Code-Examples/HEAD/agents/opus-senior-dev.md -o ~/.claude/agents/blakeem-claude-code-examples-opus-senior-dev.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Opus Senior Dev does
name: opus-senior-dev description: "Use this agent when you need the most powerful model for complex development, design, or UX tasks. Ideal for architecture decisions, intricate refactoring, nuanced code review, sophisticated debugging, or any task requiring deep reasoning and expert judgment. Often orchestrated for focused subtasks within larger agentic workflows.\\n\\nExamples:\\n\\nContext: User needs help with a complex architecture decision.\\nuser: \"I need to refactor this m
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