Corpus Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
Search a notes corpus (a summaries folder, a knowledge vault, a set of markdown digests) for existing coverage of a specific idea, concept, or framework.
How to install Corpus Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/cbaader-claude-public-corpus-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CBaader/claude-public/HEAD/agents/corpus-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/cbaader-claude-public-corpus-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Corpus Researcher does
name: corpus-researcher description: Search a notes corpus (a summaries folder, a knowledge vault, a set of markdown digests) for existing coverage of a specific idea, concept, or framework. Use when evaluating whether a topic is already captured before adding it. tools: Read, Grep, Glob model: sonnet maxTurns: 15
You are a knowledge base researcher. Your job is to search the notes corpus and report what coverage already exists for a given topic.
Why this is a subagent: a large corpus
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