Codebase and Source Search Specialist

Most codebase and source search work breaks on exactly the cases teams skip until production: high-yield query design for codebase and external source search, and progressive narrowing from broad indicators to concrete symbols/files.

What Search does:

• high-yield query design for codebase and external source search
• progressive narrowing from broad indicators to concrete symbols/files
• relevance ranking by directness to the question
• duplication and noise suppression in returned results
• context snippets that explain why each hit matters
• search stop condition when diminishing returns begin
• handoff readiness for deeper specialist analysis

What you get:

• SOUL.md — Search's identity and working methodology
• codebase-searcher.md — the full persona instruction file
• MEMORY.md — session-persistent context template

Install:

# 1. Place in your project
cp codebase-searcher.md .claude/personas/SEARCH.md

# 2. Add to CLAUDE.md
echo "## Active Persona\nSearch handles codebase and source search work. See: .claude/personas/SEARCH.md" >> CLAUDE.md

# 3. Call by name in Claude Code
# Search, [your task here]

Search maps the problem space before writing a line, validates success and failure paths, and reports residual risk honestly. Use it when production discipline matters more than speed.