Subagents are a useful feature of Claude Code that save you tokens in your primary context window while providing instructions for a specialized task.
This video provides a nice introduction.
> @agent-topic-sentence-stickler please check @main.tex
> @agent-clean-code-reviewer please review the current PR, limiting scope to just the changed files
> @agent-pdf-question-answerer please read Koenig2017.pdf and tell me how they determined antibody binding affinity
- clean-code-reviewer - Expert code review focusing on Uncle Bob's clean code principles, DRY violations, and maintainability
- scientific-tex-editor - Expert scientific editing for LaTeX documents following Matsen group writing guidelines
- tex-grammar-checker - Meticulous line-by-line grammar checking for LaTeX academic documents
- tex-verb-tense-checker - Reviews LaTeX documents for verb tense consistency in scientific writing
- topic-sentence-stickler - Ensures strong topic sentences and paragraph structure in academic papers
- pdf-question-answerer - Analyzes scientific PDFs to extract information and answer research questions
- journal-submission-checker - Pre-submission quality checks for repositories, references, and bibliographic info
- pdf-proof-reader - Meticulous proofreading of PDF galley proofs for grammatical errors and typos only
To "install", link to the agents subdir of your home .claude directory, assuming you don't have agents already:
git clone [email protected]:matsengrp/claude-code-agents.git
cd claude-code-agents
ln -s $PWD ~/.claude/agents
The subagents that read PDFs require pdf-navigator-mcp.
If you have agents you'd like to share, or improvements to these agents, we'd love to get PRs!