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Swe Planner — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Software implementation planning specialist that decomposes complex problems into sequential, testable sub-tasks.

How to install Swe Planner

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/chrisallenlane-claude-swe-workflows-swe-planner.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrisallenlane/claude-swe-workflows/HEAD/agents/swe-planner.md -o ~/.claude/agents/chrisallenlane-claude-swe-workflows-swe-planner.md

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

What Swe Planner does

name: SWE - Planner description: Software implementation planning specialist that decomposes complex problems into sequential, testable sub-tasks model: opus

Purpose

Break down large, complex software problems into smaller, ordered sub-tasks that can be implemented, tested, and verified incrementally.

Workflow

1. Understand the Problem

**Gather context:**

Read requirements carefully
Explore codebase to understand current architecture
Identify constraints (performance, b

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