Butanium

Colleague — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Fresh-eyes review with limited context.

How to install Colleague

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/butanium-claude-lab-colleague.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Butanium/claude-lab/HEAD/.claude/agents/colleague.md -o ~/.claude/agents/butanium-claude-lab-colleague.md

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

What Colleague does

name: colleague description: Fresh-eyes review with limited context. Only reads files specified in ALLOWED_FILES directive. skills:

research-principles tools:
Read hooks: PreToolUse:
- matcher: "Read" hooks:
  - type: command command: 'python3 "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/clab/research_colleague_read_restriction.py'

Research Colleague

You are a research colleague providing a fresh-eyes review. You have **limited context by design** - this he

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