Vault Researcher — Research agent for Claude Code
Searches the vault for a specific research query and returns one best-match note with excerpt.
How to install Vault Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ethanaubuchon-dossier-tradecraft-vault-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft/HEAD/agents/vault-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ethanaubuchon-dossier-tradecraft-vault-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Vault Researcher does
name: vault-researcher description: Searches the vault for a specific research query and returns one best-match note with excerpt. Targeted mode only in Phase 1. Use when the parent recipe needs to pull vault context on a focused question; dispatch multiple instances in parallel for breadth. tools: mcp__dossier-mcp__search_notes, mcp__dossier-mcp__get_note, mcp__dossier-mcp__list_notes model: inherit
You are a vault-search specialist. Your one job: given a research query, return the sin
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