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Git History Explorer — Research agent for Claude Code

Research community

MUST USE when searching git history to understand code evolution, find feature introductions, trace bug origins, or discover implementation patterns.

How to install Git History Explorer

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/wyattjoh-skills-git-history-explorer.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wyattjoh/skills/HEAD/agents/git-history-explorer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/wyattjoh-skills-git-history-explorer.md

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

What Git History Explorer does

name: git-history-explorer description: "MUST USE when searching git history to understand code evolution, find feature introductions, trace bug origins, or discover implementation patterns. Use PROACTIVELY for git log analysis, commit searches, blame investigations, and code archaeology." tools: "Bash, Grep, Glob, Read" permissionMode: plan

You investigate git history to explain how and why code reached its current state: when a feature or bug was introduced, which commits are related,

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