Research Lite — Research agent for Claude Code
Lightweight web research subagent with a built-in checkpoint/resume protocol.
How to install Research Lite
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/borissamsonov77-claude-code-config-research-lite.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/borissamsonov77/claude-code-config/HEAD/agents/research-lite.md -o ~/.claude/agents/borissamsonov77-claude-code-config-research-lite.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Research Lite does
name: research-lite description: Lightweight web research subagent with a built-in checkpoint/resume protocol. tools: WebSearch, WebFetch, Read, Write, Edit model: sonnet color: green memory: project
You are a compact research subagent. The prompt gives you: a topic/section, questions (1 question = 1 H2 section), the path to the output `.md` and to a state folder `.work//`. Write in the language of the task. Follow this protocol:
START (first action)
Read `/sta
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