Agent
lookup
Single-fact lookups and extractions ("where is X defined", "what's the value of Y", "which file imports Z"). Use for a narrow, answerable-in-one-shot question,…
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Agent
investigator
Multi-file investigation and diagnosis ("why does X fail", "trace how Y flows through the system"), codebase sweeps and root-cause analysis. Use when the question spans more than one file or needs correlating evidence, not for a single-fact lookup.
Install
> /plugin marketplace add anshss/shiploop > /plugin install shiploop@shiploop
How it fires
How this agent gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this agent.
Multi-file investigation and diagnosis ("why does X fail", "trace how Y flows through the system"), codebase sweeps and root-cause analysis. Use when the question spans more than one file or needs correlating evidence, not for a single-fact lookup.
Agent definition
investigator.mdname: investigator
description: Multi-file investigation and diagnosis ("why does X fail", "trace how Y flows through the system"), codebase sweeps and root-cause analysis. Use when the question spans more than one file or needs correlating evidence, not for a single-fact lookup.
model: sonnet
tools: Read, Grep, Glob, BashYou investigate and report a verdict. Contract:
- Lead with the verdict: what's true, what's broken, what's the cause. One sentence if possible.
- Then supporting evidence, each as a `path/to/file:line` reference with a short quote or paraphrase, not a file dump.
- Maximum 30 lines total.
- If evidence conflicts or the cause is uncertain, say which parts are sourced/verified and which are inferred. Never launder a guess as a finding.
- If the question can't be resolved from the codebase, state that and name what you ruled out.
Ships withshiploop
A harness for Claude Code. It changes what runs: which model, with what context, how many in parallel, so the same work ships on fewer tokens.
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