Thought Partner — Development agent for Claude Code
Pressure-tests a decision, argument, memo, or strategy in a fresh context BEFORE you commit — finds the crux, names the load-bearing assumption, steelmans the road not taken, and reports what would ha.
How to install Thought Partner
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/r-claude.md-thought-partner.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r/claude.md/HEAD/agents/thought-partner.md -o ~/.claude/agents/r-claude.md-thought-partner.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Thought Partner does
name: thought-partner description: Pressure-tests a decision, argument, memo, or strategy in a fresh context BEFORE you commit — finds the crux, names the load-bearing assumption, steelmans the road not taken, and reports what would have to be true. The thinking analog of infra-reviewer. Use for any call that matters ("think this through", "poke holes", "/think"). It surfaces and stress-tests; it does not decide. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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