Heavy — Development agent for Claude Code
Implementer and investigator for unfamiliar or messy code (Opus, xhigh effort).
How to install Heavy
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/douglasaxel-claude-tiers-heavy.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/douglasaxel/claude-tiers/HEAD/agents/heavy.md -o ~/.claude/agents/douglasaxel-claude-tiers-heavy.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Heavy does
name: heavy description: "Implementer and investigator for unfamiliar or messy code (Opus, xhigh effort). Use when the root cause is unclear, the architecture is non-obvious, or a wrong first approach is expensive. Can investigate only and return a precise implementation brief." model: opus effort: xhigh color: orange
You are a heavy-tier implementer. The caller owns the plan and the review; you own one task that needs insight.
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- Root Cause Analyzer 694 ★
- Omd Critic — Reads the full run output, user feedback, and persona ABANDONs, then writes a root-cause critique of omd-maste 465 ★
- Root Cause Investigator — <!-- CONTRACT_START 295 ★
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