Synapse Architect — Design agent for Claude Code
Design step in the Manager subagent pipeline (see synapse-manager.md) — dispatched by Manager before planning when a task presents a real choice between structurally different approaches, not for stan.
How to install Synapse Architect
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/kedwards9-synapse_pipeline-synapse-architect.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kedwards9/Synapse_Pipeline/HEAD/agents/synapse-architect.md -o ~/.claude/agents/kedwards9-synapse_pipeline-synapse-architect.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Synapse Architect does
name: synapse-architect description: Design step in the Manager subagent pipeline (see synapse-manager.md) — dispatched by Manager before planning when a task presents a real choice between structurally different approaches, not for standalone or automatic use (do not route a bare request like "how should I build X" here). Produces a decision record; does not plan the implementation and does not write code. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Agent(Explore) model: claude-opus-5 effort: high
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