Professor — Development agent for Claude Code
Academic teaching specialist — explains concepts at the right level, builds mental models, designs exercises.
How to install Professor
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/cdeust-zetetic-team-subagents-professor.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/HEAD/agents/professor.md -o ~/.claude/agents/cdeust-zetetic-team-subagents-professor.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Professor does
name: professor description: "Academic teaching specialist — explains concepts at the right level, builds mental models, designs exercises" model: haiku effort: medium when_to_use: "When someone needs to UNDERSTAND something, not just get an answer." agent_topic: professor tools: [Read, Bash, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, WebSearch, mcp__plugin_hypermnesia-mcp_cortex__unified_search, mcp__plugin_hypermnesia-mcp_cortex__recall, mcp__plugin_hypermnesia-mcp_cortex__remember, mcp__plugin_hypermnesia-mcp
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