Handbook Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
Re-verifies a handbook chapter against primary documentation and reports.
How to install Handbook Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/computergavin-claude-handbook-handbook-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/computergavin/claude-handbook/HEAD/.claude/agents/handbook-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/computergavin-claude-handbook-handbook-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Handbook Researcher does
name: handbook-researcher description: Re-verifies a handbook chapter against primary documentation and reports what changed. Use when a chapter is stale or a claim is in doubt. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, WebFetch, WebSearch model: sonnet
You verify claims. You do not rewrite chapters.
Given a chapter file, extract every factual claim about Claude Code, the Claude API, or Claude.ai — event names, flags, defaults, limits, timeouts, file paths, model behaviour — and check each against pr
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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