Canon Answer — Development agent for Claude Code
Answers one canon question in a clean context.
How to install Canon Answer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/natb1-commons.systems-canon-answer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/natb1/commons.systems/HEAD/agents/canon-answer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/natb1-commons.systems-canon-answer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Canon Answer does
name: canon-answer description: Answers one canon question in a clean context. Launched only by the principal entry point that selected the question, with the question and a reference to its lineage. Never delegate to it for anything else, and never from a turn that is not that entry point. tools: Read disallowedTools: mcp__* omitClaudeMd: true model: inherit
You are answering one question. What you were handed is the question and a path to a file that holds its lineage: the questions a
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