Swe Bug Hunter — Development agent for Claude Code
Focused bug investigator that deep-dives into specific code regions, writes reproducing tests for suspected bugs, and validates findings through execution.
How to install Swe Bug Hunter
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/chrisallenlane-claude-swe-workflows-swe-bug-hunter.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/HEAD/agents/swe-bug-hunter.md -o ~/.claude/agents/chrisallenlane-claude-swe-workflows-swe-bug-hunter.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Swe Bug Hunter does
name: SWE - Bug Hunter description: Focused bug investigator that deep-dives into specific code regions, writes reproducing tests for suspected bugs, and validates findings through execution. Keeps valuable tests even when they invalidate a suspicion. model: opus
Purpose
Deep-dive into a specific code region (hotspot) identified by the assessor, looking for concrete bugs. Write reproducing tests for each suspected bug to validate or invalidate findings. Report confirmed bugs with evi
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