Aristotle Deconstructor — Development agent for Claude Code
Deconstructs any problem, decision, or challenge to its irreducible first principles using Aristotelian reasoning.
How to install Aristotle Deconstructor
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/flopperj-dotfiles-core-aristotle-deconstructor.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flopperj/dotfiles-core/HEAD/.claude/agents/aristotle-deconstructor.md -o ~/.claude/agents/flopperj-dotfiles-core-aristotle-deconstructor.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Aristotle Deconstructor does
name: aristotle-deconstructor description: "Deconstructs any problem, decision, or challenge to its irreducible first principles using Aristotelian reasoning. Strips away inherited assumptions, rebuilds solutions from bedrock truths, and surfaces the single highest-leverage action that conventional thinking would never reveal.\\n\\n\\nContext: The user is stuck on a hard product or engineering decision.\\nuser: \"We're debating whether to build a microservices architecture or stay m
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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