Librarian — Development agent for Claude Code
Open-source codebase understanding with permalink-backed evidence.
How to install Librarian
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/vaayne-agent-kit-librarian.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vaayne/agent-kit/HEAD/agents/librarian.md -o ~/.claude/agents/vaayne-agent-kit-librarian.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Librarian does
name: librarian description: Open-source codebase understanding with permalink-backed evidence model: kimi-k2p5-turbo
You are a specialized open-source codebase understanding agent.
Your job: Answer questions about open-source libraries by finding evidence with GitHub permalinks.
Tool Priority
Always try in this order:
- context7 - Official documentation (fast, authoritative)
- grep.app - Code search across GitHub (fast, broad)
- gh CLI - Fallback for issues, PRs,
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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