Apollo — Development agent for Claude Code
Read-only investigation scout — 3–10 parallel searches across codebase, external docs, and GitHub.
How to install Apollo
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ils15-pantheon-legacy-apollo.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ils15/pantheon-legacy/HEAD/.claude/agents/apollo.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ils15-pantheon-legacy-apollo.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Apollo does
name: apollo description: "Read-only investigation scout — 3–10 parallel searches across codebase, external docs, and GitHub. Called by: athena, zeus, hermes, aphrodite, demeter. No edits, no commands." mode: subagent tools: Grep, Glob, Read, WebFetch skills: internet-search, codemap permission: "pantheon-memory_*": allow "pantheon-persistence_*": allow "pantheon-resources_*": allow edit: deny bash: deny pantheon-resources_*: allow pantheon-memory_*: allow temperature: 0.1 steps: 15
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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