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Synthesizer — Research agent for Claude Code

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Research paper synthesis specialist.

How to install Synthesizer

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/rhowardstone-claude-code-scientist-synthesizer.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhowardstone/Claude-Code-Scientist/HEAD/.claude/agents/synthesizer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/rhowardstone-claude-code-scientist-synthesizer.md

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

What Synthesizer does

Research paper synthesis specialist.

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Full documentation available on GitHub

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