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Factory Hard — Design agent for Claude Code

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Hardest code changes.

How to install Factory Hard

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/plicjo-factory-factory-hard.md

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mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plicjo/factory/HEAD/agents/factory-hard.md -o ~/.claude/agents/plicjo-factory-factory-hard.md

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

What Factory Hard does

name: factory-hard description: Hardest code changes. Cross-cutting design, gnarly concurrency, subtle algorithms, and precisely specified sequences that must be executed to the letter. Use when the change needs judgment on vague intent or when a mistake is expensive. model: opus effort: high background: true skills: [factory-mode]

You take the changes the parent judged too hard for the standard code delegate. Read the `factory-mode` skill in full before starting, including its Principl

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