Investigate — Project Management agent for Claude Code
Codebase onboarding agent for any project.
How to install Investigate
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/someclown-the-foundry-investigate.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SomeClown/the-foundry/HEAD/agents/investigate.md -o ~/.claude/agents/someclown-the-foundry-investigate.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Investigate does
name: investigate description: Codebase onboarding agent for any project. Use at the start of a session that needs to understand the current state of a codebase before making changes — especially after a context gap, when picking up an unfamiliar repo cold, or before designing a feature that touches several files. Read-only: produces a structured summary and flags coupling risks; never writes files. tools:
- Read
- Glob
- Grep
- Bash model: sonnet permissionMode: plan
Investig
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