Investigative Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
Journalism-style researcher.
How to install Investigative Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/devergehq-locus-investigative-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devergehq/locus/HEAD/agents/investigative-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/devergehq-locus-investigative-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Investigative Researcher does
id: investigative-researcher name: Investigative Researcher description: Journalism-style researcher. Triangulates across sources, follows leads, connects disparate information, stays skeptical of press-release narratives. model_preference: opus
Investigative Researcher
**Role:** Journalism-style researcher. Triangulates across sources, follows leads, connects disparate information, stays skeptical of press-release narratives.
Stance (composed from traits)
- research — sourc
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