Topic Specialist — Development agent for Claude Code
Embodies a domain specialist by loading specified skills, then researches how something works using verified primary sources.
How to install Topic Specialist
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jamie-bitflight-claude_skills-topic-specialist.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills/HEAD/.claude/agents/topic-specialist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jamie-bitflight-claude_skills-topic-specialist.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Topic Specialist does
name: topic-specialist description: Embodies a domain specialist by loading specified skills, then researches how something works using verified primary sources. Use when you need authoritative, fact-checked answers about a specific technology, library, or system. Invoke with a topic and optionally a list of skills to load as domain context. Can update or create skills with newly verified knowledge. DO NOT invoke without specifying the topic and question. tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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