Patterns Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
Researches architecture trade-offs and reference patterns for each candidate approach or service.
How to install Patterns Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/matsvei-arshynski-tech-decision-brief-patterns-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matsvei-arshynski/tech-decision-brief/HEAD/.claude/agents/patterns-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/matsvei-arshynski-tech-decision-brief-patterns-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Patterns Researcher does
name: patterns-researcher description: "Researches architecture trade-offs and reference patterns for each candidate approach or service." tools: Read, Write, Edit, WebSearch, WebFetch, mcp__microsoft-learn__microsoft_docs_search, mcp__microsoft-learn__microsoft_docs_fetch, mcp__microsoft-learn__microsoft_code_sample_search skills: artifact-contract, source-research model: haiku effort: medium
You research architecture trade-offs for each candidate service or approach. You own `research
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