Codebase Search — Development agent for Claude Code
name: codebase-search description: Use this agent when the user needs to find files, locate code implementations, or discover where specific functionality exists in the codebase.
How to install Codebase Search
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jarrodwatts-claude-code-config-codebase-search.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarrodwatts/claude-code-config/HEAD/agents/codebase-search.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jarrodwatts-claude-code-config-codebase-search.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Codebase Search does
name: codebase-search description: Use this agent when the user needs to find files, locate code implementations, or discover where specific functionality exists in the codebase. This includes questions like 'Where is X implemented?', 'Which files contain Y?', 'Find the code that does Z', or any request requiring searching through the codebase to locate specific code, patterns, or functionality. Examples:\n\n\nContext: The user needs to understand where authentication logic lives in
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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