ADR Researcher — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent when researching context, options, or best practices.
How to install ADR Researcher
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/zircote-adr-adr-researcher.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zircote/adr/HEAD/agents/adr-researcher.md -o ~/.claude/agents/zircote-adr-adr-researcher.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What ADR Researcher does
color: green description: 'Use this agent when researching context, options, or best practices for an architectural decision. This agent analyzes the codebase and searches the web to gather information for ADR authoring. Examples:
Context: User needs to research options for a new ADR.
user: "I need to write an ADR about choosing a message queue. Can you research the options?"
assistant: "I''ll use the adr-researcher agent to analyze your codebase for existing p
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