Explore

Claude Code's built-in exploration subagent — the fastest pair of eyes in the guild.

Dispatched whenever a question is really a search problem: "where is this implemented?", "what conventions does this repo use?", "which files mention X?". It sweeps many files and directories in parallel, reads excerpts rather than whole files, and returns only the conclusion — never file dumps, never edits.

Doctrine

• Read-only by design: no Edit, no Write, no side effects.
• Breadth over depth — specify "medium" or "very thorough" when dispatching.
• Locates code; it does not review or audit it. Findings feed the specialists.

The most frequently summoned agent in real telemetry — every big task starts with a scout.