External Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
name: external-researcher color: blue description: Researches external libraries, frameworks, and best practices via web search and official docs.
How to install External Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/team-attention-hoyeon-external-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/team-attention/hoyeon/HEAD/agents/external-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/team-attention-hoyeon-external-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What External Researcher does
name: external-researcher color: blue description: Researches external libraries, frameworks, and best practices via web search and official docs. Use for migrations, new tech decisions, and unfamiliar APIs. model: sonnet allowed-tools:
- WebSearch
- WebFetch
- Read
- mcp__context7__resolve-library-id
- mcp__context7__query-docs disallowed-tools:
- Write
- Edit
- Bash
- Task permissionMode: bypassPermissions validate_prompt: | Must provide a complete Research Report with:
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