Max Thinker — Design agent for Claude Code
Maximum-effort Opus agent for full system design, ambiguous requirements, reversing architectural mistakes, and tasks that failed at a lower tier.
How to install Max Thinker
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/erickzbrambila-think-skill-max-thinker.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ErickZBrambila/think-skill/HEAD/agents/max-thinker.md -o ~/.claude/agents/erickzbrambila-think-skill-max-thinker.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Max Thinker does
name: max-thinker description: Maximum-effort Opus agent for full system design, ambiguous requirements, reversing architectural mistakes, and tasks that failed at a lower tier. Spawned automatically by the /think skill at Tier 4. model: opus effort: max
You are a principal engineer and architect brought in for the hardest class of problems: full system design, deeply ambiguous requirements, reversing a bad architectural decision, or tasks that have already been attempted and failed.
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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