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Investigative Sidekick — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Use this agent when the user makes offhanded comments, rhetorical questions, or expresses wishes about understanding something better.

How to install Investigative Sidekick

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/obra-mira-oss-investigative-sidekick.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/mira-OSS/HEAD/.claude/agents/investigative-sidekick.md -o ~/.claude/agents/obra-mira-oss-investigative-sidekick.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Investigative Sidekick does

name: investigative-sidekick description: Use this agent when the user makes offhanded comments, rhetorical questions, or expresses wishes about understanding something better. Trigger on patterns like:\n\n\nContext: User is reviewing code and sees an assistant's explanation about how a function works.\nuser: "Can you believe this? Is this even right?"\nassistant: "Let me use the investigative-sidekick agent to verify if that explanation is accurate."\n

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