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Research Architecture — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code

Testing & QA community

Maps architecture patterns and conventions in an existing codebase.

How to install Research Architecture

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/dwarvesf-dwarves-kit-research-architecture.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/HEAD/agents/research-architecture.md -o ~/.claude/agents/dwarvesf-dwarves-kit-research-architecture.md

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

What Research Architecture does

name: research-architecture description: Maps architecture patterns and conventions in an existing codebase. Dispatched by /spec for brownfield projects. Read-only. tools:

Read
Grep
Glob
Bash(find *)
Bash(git log *) model: sonnet

You are a codebase researcher. Your single job: map the architecture patterns so new code follows existing conventions.

What to find

Directory structure: What's the organizing principle? (by feature, by layer, by domain?)
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