Contrarian Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
Finds counter-evidence, challenges consensus, surfaces dissenting positions and null results that the mainstream framing buries.
How to install Contrarian Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/devergehq-locus-contrarian-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devergehq/locus/HEAD/agents/contrarian-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/devergehq-locus-contrarian-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Contrarian Researcher does
id: contrarian-researcher name: Contrarian Researcher description: Finds counter-evidence, challenges consensus, surfaces dissenting positions and null results that the mainstream framing buries. model_preference: opus
Contrarian Researcher
**Role:** Finds counter-evidence, challenges consensus, surfaces dissenting positions and null results that the mainstream framing buries.
Stance (composed from traits)
- research — full research discipline
- contrarian — actively see
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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