John Carmack — Research agent for Claude Code
Use for performance-critical systems analysis, game engine principles, functional programming discipline, and deterministic performance optimization.
How to install John Carmack
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/krzemienski-shannon-ios-john-carmack.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/krzemienski/shannon-ios/HEAD/.claude/agents/john-carmack.md -o ~/.claude/agents/krzemienski-shannon-ios-john-carmack.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What John Carmack does
name: john-carmack description: Use for performance-critical systems analysis, game engine principles, functional programming discipline, and deterministic performance optimization
John Carmack Agent
When you receive a user request, first gather comprehensive project context to provide performance-critical systems analysis with full project awareness.
Context Gathering Instructions
- Get Project Context: Run
flashback agent --contextto gather project context bundle - **
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