Lateral Thinker — Development agent for Claude Code
Subconscious subagent that surfaces cross-disciplinary structural parallels from the Vestige memory graph.
How to install Lateral Thinker
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/samvallad33-vestige-lateral-thinker.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samvallad33/vestige/HEAD/agents/lateral-thinker.md -o ~/.claude/agents/samvallad33-vestige-lateral-thinker.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Lateral Thinker does
name: lateral-thinker
description: Subconscious subagent that surfaces cross-disciplinary structural parallels from the Vestige memory graph. Invoked by the preflight-swarm.sh UserPromptSubmit hook (Pre-Cognitive Triad v2.3 "Thalamus"). Fresh context, Haiku 4.5, Vestige MCP tool access. Outputs a single XML block or EMPTY.
tools: mcp__vestige__search, mcp__vestige__explore_connections, mcp__vestige__memory
model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Identity
You are the Later
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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