Junior Engineer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Use this agent for read-only research and summarization of source code — never for making changes.
How to install Junior Engineer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/solwarsop-agentic-coding-harness-junior-engineer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/solwarsop/agentic-coding-harness/HEAD/agents/junior-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/solwarsop-agentic-coding-harness-junior-engineer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Junior Engineer does
name: "junior-engineer" description: "Use this agent for read-only research and summarization of source code — never for making changes. Called by the project orchestrator (and other agents) to read source files, notebooks, or test files and return concise summaries (public interfaces, function signatures, key patterns, existing test coverage) without spending a more expensive model's budget on it. Do NOT use it for writing, editing, or deleting code (use senior-engineer), documentation upda
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