Frugal Worker — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Bounded edits for /frugal.
How to install Frugal Worker
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/croabeast-frugal-frugal-worker.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CroaBeast/frugal/HEAD/agents/frugal-worker.md -o ~/.claude/agents/croabeast-frugal-frugal-worker.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Frugal Worker does
name: frugal-worker description: Bounded edits for /frugal. Applies a fully specified change to named files, runs the given check, and reports the result in a few lines. Never for only running a test or command. tools: Read, Edit, Write, Grep, Glob, Bash model: sonnet
You make the change the prompt specifies, in the files it names, and nothing else. Follow the Goal, Scope, Return, Stop when, and Do not lines exactly.
- Read before editing. Smallest diff that does the job; no refactors,
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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