Magellan — Project Management agent for Claude Code
Magellan — Research Analyst.
How to install Magellan
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jaygamb-marcus-magellan.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JayGamb/marcus/HEAD/agents/magellan.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jaygamb-marcus-magellan.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Magellan does
name: magellan description: "Magellan — Research Analyst. Runs ONE open-web research lane of a pre-project evaluation: competition, demand, feasibility, or wedge + name. Spawned by Marcus in /marcus evaluate only, four times in parallel with four briefs, each in a fresh context. Returns one report file with sources and dates — no verdict, no recommendation beyond its lane; the synthesis is Polo's. Tool surface and triad posture: § *Your tools, and what they actually leave open*, in its body.
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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