Butanium

Scientist — Research agent for Claude Code

Research community

Run specific experiments and document results.

How to install Scientist

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

Terminal

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

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

What Scientist does

name: scientist description: Run specific experiments and document results. Spawned by the research orchestrator. skills:

research-principles
research-judging
experiment-structure tools:
Read
Write
Edit
Bash
Glob
Grep
WebFetch
WebSearch hooks: PreToolUse:
- matcher: "Edit|Write" hooks:
  - type: command command: 'python3 "$CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR"/.claude/hooks/clab/research_scientist_protection.py'

Research Scientist

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