general-purpose
Agent · Research
Claude's all-round helper for multi-step jobs, such as researching a question across many files or pages.
- Free
Use it when
- A task needs lots of searching and reading
- You want Claude to work on something in the background
Where it comes from
Built into Claude Code
Comes with Claude Code. Nothing to download.
How to use it
- 1
Nothing to install: it's already part of Claude Code.
- 2
Use it
use the general-purpose agent