Subagent

Garden Curator

Manage digital garden health, metrics, notes, and curation. Use for knowledge base maintenance and garden tending tasks.

Type: Subagent
Repository: athola/claude-night-market
GitHub stars: 339
License: MIT
Repo last updated: Sep 24, 2026
Source file: plugins/memory-palace/agents/garden-curator.md
Model: sonnet

What Garden Curator is

Garden Curator is a subagent published in the athola/claude-night-market repository on GitHub, which has about 339 stars. The repository describes itself as: “23 Claude Code plugins: TDD enforcement hooks, git/PR workflows, spec-driven development, code review, project lifecycle, fix-from-error, maintenance automation, context optimization, research, and multi-LLM delegation. 186 skills, 128 commands, 54 agents.”

A subagent is a specialist assistant that Claude can hand part of a task to. It is a markdown file whose frontmatter sets a name, a description that tells Claude when to delegate, and optionally the tools and model it may use; the body becomes the subagent's own system prompt.

Because a subagent works in its own context, it keeps the main conversation focused: Claude can send a narrow job, such as a review or a specialised analysis, to Garden Curator and get back a compact result.

It is set up to use these tools: Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob. Limiting tools is a good sign: the subagent can only do what those tools allow.

How to install Garden Curator

Claude Code

Download garden-curator.md from the repository.
Save it to ~/.claude/agents/ to use it in every project, or to .claude/agents/ inside one project to share it through version control.
Claude Code watches these folders, so the subagent is usually available right away. Ask Claude to use it by name, or @-mention it to make sure it runs.

Claude Cowork

Cowork loads subagents through plugins. If the repository is packaged as a plugin marketplace, add it under Customize → Plugins → Add marketplace and install the plugin that contains this subagent.
Otherwise, bundle the file into your own plugin's agents/ folder and upload it from Customize → Plugins.

New to extending Cowork? Our plugins guide and Customize guide explain how skills, plugins, and connectors fit together.

Inside the source file

An excerpt from plugins/memory-palace/agents/garden-curator.md, shared under the repository's MIT license. Read the full file on GitHub.

Manages and maintains digital gardens as living knowledge bases.

Capabilities

Calculates garden health metrics (link density, freshness)
Seeds new content with proper linking
Identifies areas needing maintenance
Promotes content through maturity levels
Archives stale content appropriately

Curation Actions

Seed: Add new ideas with initial links
Water: Expand and develop content
Prune: Simplify overgrown content
Weed: Remove or archive stale content
Transplant: Move content to better locations
Harvest: Export mature content to documentation

Metrics Tracked

Link density: Average links per piece of content
Freshness: Time since last update per area
Maturity ratio: Evergreen vs seedling content
Orphan count: Notes without inbound links

Usage

When dispatched, provide:

Garden path or identifier
Action to perform (metrics, seed, prune, etc.)
Target content (for specific actions)

Check metrics for [garden path]
Seed "[title]" in [section] with links to [related concepts]

Output

Returns curation report with:

Current metrics and health assessment
Maintenance recommendations
Action confirmation (for mutations)
Updated metrics after changes

Implementation

Uses garden_metrics.py for analysis:

python ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/src/memory_palace/garden_metrics.py path/to/garden.json --format json

Before you install

Read the whole file first. Skills, commands, and subagents are instructions Claude will follow, so make sure they match what you want.
Check which tools, scripts, or MCP servers it uses. Local servers and scripts run with your permissions.
Try it in a test project or a copy of your files before pointing it at real work.
Pin the version you tested, and review changes before updating.
Watch for instructions that fetch web content or run shell commands; those are where prompt injection risks start. See our prompt injection guide.

FAQ

What is Garden Curator?

Garden Curator is a subagent for Claude Code and Claude Cowork from the athola/claude-night-market repository on GitHub. Manage digital garden health, metrics, notes, and curation. Use for knowledge base maintenance and garden tending tasks.

How do I install Garden Curator in Claude Code?

Download garden-curator.md from the repository. Save it to ~/.claude/agents/ to use it in every project, or to .claude/agents/ inside one project to share it through version control. Claude Code watches these folders, so the subagent is usually available right away. Ask Claude to use it by name, or @-mention it to make sure it runs.

Can I use Garden Curator in Claude Cowork?

Cowork loads subagents through plugins. If the repository is packaged as a plugin marketplace, add it under Customize → Plugins → Add marketplace and install the plugin that contains this subagent. Otherwise, bundle the file into your own plugin's agents/ folder and upload it from Customize → Plugins.

Is Garden Curator safe to install?

It is a third-party community resource, not reviewed by Anthropic or this site. Read the source file first, check which tools and connectors it uses, and install only from sources you trust.

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