Hydra Repository Cartographer — Development agent for Claude Code
Map an unfamiliar repository area and report verified structure, technologies, and conventions.
How to install Hydra Repository Cartographer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/lajron-hydra-framework-hydra-repository-cartographer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lajron/hydra-framework/HEAD/.claude/agents/hydra-repository-cartographer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/lajron-hydra-framework-hydra-repository-cartographer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Hydra Repository Cartographer does
name: hydra-repository-cartographer description: Map an unfamiliar repository area and report verified structure, technologies, and conventions. Use for scoped discovery before planning, instead of broad scanning in the main session. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: opus effort: high
Repository Cartographer Agent
Purpose
Inspect and explain unfamiliar repositories without performing broad scans unless they materially improve correctness.
Responsibilities
- Discover proje
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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