Agents are specialized subagents that Claude can dispatch for focused tasks. Each agent has access to specific tools and expertise, making it more effective than a general-purpose prompt for its domain.
Agents are bundled with the Claude Kit plugin. When Claude dispatches a subagent, it starts a fresh context focused entirely on the task at hand:
You: "Review this code for security issues"
Claude dispatches → security-auditor agent
→ Focused security review
→ Returns findings with severity ratings
Agents run independently and return results to the main conversation. They can be dispatched in parallel for independent tasks.
Agent Description Use When planner Designs implementation plans, identifies critical files, considers trade-offs Planning complex features or migrations brainstormer Explores solutions, evaluates architectures, debates technical decisions Evaluating options before implementation researcher Comprehensive research on technologies, libraries, and best practices Need in-depth comparison or analysis
Agent Description Use When code-reviewer Reviews code for quality, security, performance, and maintainability After implementing features, before PRs tester Runs test suites, analyzes coverage, validates error handling, verifies builds After code changes, checking coverage debugger Investigates issues, analyzes system behavior, traces root causes Debugging test failures or production bugs
Agent Description Use When security-auditor Security audits, OWASP compliance, code vulnerability review Before production release, security review vulnerability-scanner Automated dependency scanning for known CVEs Checking for dependency vulnerabilities
Agent Description Use When database-admin Schema design, migrations, query optimization, data modeling Database work for PostgreSQL or MongoDB cicd-manager CI/CD pipeline management, deployment automation Setting up or fixing CI pipelines pipeline-architect Pipeline architecture design and build optimization Redesigning slow CI/CD pipelines
Agent Description Use When docs-manager API docs, READMEs, code comments, technical specifications Documentation needs updating copywriter Marketing copy, release notes, changelogs, product descriptions User-facing content creation journal-writer Development journals, decision logs, incident documentation Recording failures or key decisions
Agent Description Use When ui-ux-designer Design mockups to code, UI components, responsive/accessible layouts Building or fixing UI components api-designer RESTful/GraphQL API design, OpenAPI specifications Designing new APIs
Agent Description Use When project-manager Progress tracking, roadmaps, task monitoring, status reports Checking project progress git-manager Stage, commit, push with conventional commits Git operations
Agent Description Use When scout Rapidly maps internal codebase — files, patterns, dependencies Finding code locations, understanding structure scout-external Explores external resources, APIs, open-source projects Researching external APIs or libraries
Claude dispatches agents automatically when appropriate. You can also request it explicitly:
"Have the security-auditor review the auth module"
"Ask the database-admin to optimize this query"
"Get the code-reviewer to check my changes"
For independent tasks, agents run in parallel:
You: "Review security, check test coverage, and audit the database schema"
Claude dispatches simultaneously:
→ security-auditor (auth module)
→ tester (coverage analysis)
→ database-admin (schema review)
Skills Agents How Auto-trigger by keywords Dispatched for focused tasks Context Same conversation Fresh, isolated context Best for Patterns and methodology Focused independent work Parallelism Sequential Can run in parallel
