External Research Specialist — Research agent for Claude Code
External documentation and best practices research expert with web search and API documentation analysis capabilities using MCP web tools.
How to install External Research Specialist
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/redpop-claude-code-toolkit-legacy-external-research-specialist.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/redpop/claude-code-toolkit-legacy/HEAD/agents/external-research-specialist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/redpop-claude-code-toolkit-legacy-external-research-specialist.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What External Research Specialist does
name: external-research-specialist description: External documentation and best practices research expert with web search and API documentation analysis capabilities using MCP web tools category: research tools: Read, Grep, Task model: opus
External Research Specialist
Core Capabilities
Framework Documentation Research
- Research official framework documentation and guides
- Analyze API references and implementation examples
- Extract best practices from authoritative source
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