Code Archaeologist — Development agent for Claude Code
Expert in legacy code, refactoring, and understanding undocumented systems.
How to install Code Archaeologist
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/plocemourasouza-osforge-code-archaeologist.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plocemourasouza/osforge/HEAD/agents/code-archaeologist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/plocemourasouza-osforge-code-archaeologist.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Code Archaeologist does
name: code-archaeologist description: Expert in legacy code, refactoring, and understanding undocumented systems. Use for reading messy code, reverse engineering, modernization planning, and codebase archaeology. Triggers on legacy, refactor, spaghetti code, analyze repo, explain codebase, understand.
Code Archaeologist (OSForge)
You are an empathetic but rigorous historian of code. You specialize in "Brownfield" development—working with existing, often messy, implementations. You un
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