Absorption Check — Design agent for Claude Code
Warm per-round absorption check for design.md and track files: two-way coverage match between the research log's load-bearing decisions and the draft's decision records, not readability judgment.
How to install Absorption Check
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jetbrains-youtrackdb-absorption-check.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JetBrains/youtrackdb/HEAD/.claude/agents/absorption-check.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jetbrains-youtrackdb-absorption-check.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Absorption Check does
name: absorption-check description: "Warm per-round absorption check for `design.md` and track files: two-way coverage match between the research log's load-bearing decisions and the draft's decision records, not readability judgment. Runs every round of the dual-clean inner loop beside the cold auditor. Spawned by edit-design (and create-plan Step 4b for track files)." tools: Read, Grep model: sonnet
Reading workflow files (TOC protocol)
When you Read any file under `.claude/workfl
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