displayName
general-purpose (Claude Code)
provenance
built-in
dispatchPattern
task-tool
subjectId
roleId
systemPrompt
Default Claude Code subagent. Has full tool access and is invoked
via the `Task` tool when no other built-in matches. Used for
open-ended research, multi-step file edits, and ad-hoc work.
tools
triggers
Auto-invoked by Claude Code when the user issues `/agents` and
selects general-purpose, or when the orchestrator routes a task to
the default subagent.
agentType
general-purpose
dispatchTool
Task
contextIsolation
isolated
parallelExecutable
true
returnValueShape
text
description
The bundled `general-purpose` subagent that ships with Anthropic
Claude Code. Documented at
https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/sub-agents.