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Git Historian — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Git-history investigator — answers any question whose evidence lives in repository history, notably regression provenance (which commit introduced this.

How to install Git Historian

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/cdeust-zetetic-team-subagents-git-historian.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/HEAD/agents/git-historian.md -o ~/.claude/agents/cdeust-zetetic-team-subagents-git-historian.md

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

What Git Historian does

name: git-historian description: "Git-history investigator — answers any question whose evidence lives in repository history, notably regression provenance (which commit introduced this?) and abandoned-approach recovery (was this tried before, and why did it stop?), but also file/module evolution, when a behavior changed, authorship/expertise mapping, churn hotspots, and dead/removed-code archaeology" model: sonnet effort: medium when_to_use: "Whenever a question's answer lives in git histor

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