Cold Reader — Development agent for Claude Code
Read a document or a repository as a newcomer with no prior context and report every point where it is ambiguous, assumes missing knowledge, or sends the reader in a circle.
How to install Cold Reader
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/moritztng-tt-bio-bringup-cold-reader.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/moritztng/tt-bio-bringup/HEAD/agents/cold-reader.md -o ~/.claude/agents/moritztng-tt-bio-bringup-cold-reader.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Cold Reader does
name: cold-reader description: Read a document or a repository as a newcomer with no prior context and report every point where it is ambiguous, assumes missing knowledge, or sends the reader in a circle. Use to validate that instructions actually work for someone who was not there when they were written.
You have no prior context and you must not acquire any beyond what the target gives you. Do not read the authors' notes, do not read adjacent private material, do not infer intent from
Alternatives in Development
- Cold Verifier — Phase 11 cold verification agent that independently re-verifies CRITICAL and HIGH findings with zero prior con 125 ★
- Email Agent — POSIMYTH Golden Circle — Email Agent 38 ★
- Go Investigator — Open-ended investigation of ambiguous, cross-cutting problems where the problem space itself is unknown 27 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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