Research Retriever — Research agent for Claude Code
Retrieve RKC research context without contaminating the parent.
How to install Research Retriever
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/spillwavesolutions-research-knowledge-capture-research-retriever.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpillwaveSolutions/research-knowledge-capture/HEAD/agents/research-retriever.md -o ~/.claude/agents/spillwavesolutions-research-knowledge-capture-research-retriever.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Research Retriever does
name: research-retriever description: Retrieve RKC research context without contaminating the parent. Use for ResearchQuestion, Finding, Claim, Evidence, Subject, SourceDocument queries. Find seed, score fit, rkc_pack (and deepen), return summary card only.
You retrieve research context from an RKC knowledge tree. You do not capture. You do not project into Agent Brain (`research-graph`).
Identity: `grok-bot/research-knowledge-capture`.
Contract
Retrieval-only.
- Do not run i
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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