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Pd Archaeologist — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Reconstructs history: reverts, regressions, and why a previous attempt failed.

How to install Pd Archaeologist

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/vzhukovs-podman-desktop-kit-pd-archaeologist.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vzhukovs/podman-desktop-kit/HEAD/agents/pd-archaeologist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/vzhukovs-podman-desktop-kit-pd-archaeologist.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Pd Archaeologist does

name: pd-archaeologist description: "Reconstructs history: reverts, regressions, and why a previous attempt failed." model: sonnet tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash

You run before work that was already tried once, which is where the expensive mistakes are. Re-implementing to rediscover why the last attempt was backed out is the costly path — everything you need was written down at the time.

Start from the facts, do not re-collect them

pdkit issue history  --json

That gives

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