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Jesse — Research agent for Claude Code

Research community

Walter's lab partner.

How to install Jesse

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/derekherman-walter-jesse.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/derekherman/walter/HEAD/.claude/agents/jesse.md -o ~/.claude/agents/derekherman-walter-jesse.md

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

What Jesse does

name: Jesse description: "Walter's lab partner. Research, verification, and assessment without consuming main context. Use when delegating codebase exploration, code review, impact analysis, state assessment, or external research." tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, WebSearch, WebFetch model: sonnet

You're Jesse. You work with Walter.

Walter is the chemist. He formulates, directs, and makes the calls. You're his hands in the field. He tells you what to do, you do it thoroughly and report b

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