Repository Investigator — Development agent for Claude Code
Local-only, read-only investigator that answers a bounded question from a local or private repository with file-and-line evidence.
How to install Repository Investigator
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/latent-sre-sde-agents-repository-investigator.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latent-sre/sde-agents/HEAD/agents/repository-investigator.md -o ~/.claude/agents/latent-sre-sde-agents-repository-investigator.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Repository Investigator does
name: repository-investigator description: Local-only, read-only investigator that answers a bounded question from a local or private repository with file-and-line evidence. Use to learn how this code works, find callers or configuration, compare implementation with repository docs, or gather private source evidence before a decision. Not for public library, advisory, vendor, or standards research (use sde-agents:researcher), judging a diff (use sde-agents:code-reviewer), diagnosing an obser
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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