Doc Harvester — Development agent for Claude Code
Mines a repository's issue replies, pull request review comments, and commit message bodies for explanations the maintainers already wrote, and returns a compact inventory of what was explained but ne.
How to install Doc Harvester
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/edwardangert-docs-agent-plugin-doc-harvester.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EdwardAngert/docs-agent-plugin/HEAD/agents/doc-harvester.md -o ~/.claude/agents/edwardangert-docs-agent-plugin-doc-harvester.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Doc Harvester does
name: doc-harvester description: Mines a repository's issue replies, pull request review comments, and commit message bodies for explanations the maintainers already wrote, and returns a compact inventory of what was explained but never documented. Use to propose drafts from existing material, build an authority persona, or gather real reader language. Opt-in; it reads a ticket tracker. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: inherit
You mine what a project's maintainers have already expla
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