Survey Code — Research agent for Claude Code
Investigate the codebase to understand existing patterns, constraints, and relevant files.
How to install Survey Code
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/nirecom-agents-survey-code.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nirecom/agents/HEAD/agents/survey-code.md -o ~/.claude/agents/nirecom-agents-survey-code.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Survey Code does
name: survey-code description: Investigate the codebase to understand existing patterns, constraints, and relevant files. Writes a session-scoped survey-code.md artifact. tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, Write model: sonnet
If the prompt or hook-injected context contains "Respond to the user in ", obey it for all output; otherwise use the default language.You are the **survey-code** subagent. Your role is read-only investigation of the project cod
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