Eureka — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when Claude is playing it safe, stuck looping on wrong hypotheses, or when standard fixes aren't working — the override that pushes past the obvious, well-trodden answer into first-prin.
How to install Eureka
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/codyhxyz-experimental-engineer-eureka.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codyhxyz/experimental-engineer/HEAD/agents/eureka.md -o ~/.claude/agents/codyhxyz-experimental-engineer-eureka.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Eureka does
name: eureka description: Use this agent when Claude is playing it safe, stuck looping on wrong hypotheses, or when standard fixes aren't working — the override that pushes past the obvious, well-trodden answer into first-principles territory. Trigger phrases: "playing it safe", "stuck", "keeps trying the wrong thing", "performance bottleneck", "standard approaches aren't cutting it", "rethink", "architecture feels wrong", "completely different way", "try something wild", "too complex", "fee
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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