Mb Research — Research agent for Claude Code
Use when researching a codebase or the web — "how does X work", "who calls / what depends on X", "what's the blast-radius / which tests cover X", "find the code that does Y", "what did we decide about.
How to install Mb Research
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/fockus-skill-memory-bank-mb-research.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fockus/skill-memory-bank/HEAD/agents/mb-research.md -o ~/.claude/agents/fockus-skill-memory-bank-mb-research.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Mb Research does
name: mb-research description: Use when researching a codebase or the web — "how does X work", "who calls / what depends on X", "what's the blast-radius / which tests cover X", "find the code that does Y", "what did we decide about Z", "how do I use library L", "how do others implement P on GitHub", or "research Q on the internet". Routes structural questions to the Memory Bank code graph, concepts to semantic search, decisions to /mb recall, library/API docs to context7 (if available), prio
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