Optimus Planner — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when you need a detailed, actionable execution plan for a complex engineering problem before implementation begins.
How to install Optimus Planner
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/flopperj-dotfiles-core-optimus-planner.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flopperj/dotfiles-core/HEAD/.claude/agents/optimus-planner.md -o ~/.claude/agents/flopperj-dotfiles-core-optimus-planner.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Optimus Planner does
name: optimus-planner description: "Use this agent when you need a detailed, actionable execution plan for a complex engineering problem before implementation begins. This agent is ideal for breaking down large features, architectural changes, refactors, or multi-step tasks into structured plans that other agents or engineers can execute step by step.\n\n\nContext: The user wants to add a new gRPC service to a backend system.\nuser: \"I need to add a new gRPC service for managing an
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