chefkannofriend-source/lcb-baker-agent

LCB Baker Agent is a subagent for Claude Code, the AI coding assistant, that specializes in pastry recipes and a baking calculation method called Baker's Percentage. It is built around a recipe library styled after Le Cordon Bleu training material, with recipes written in both French and Chinese. The agent can look up a recipe by name in either language, or find every recipe in the library that uses a particular ingredient. Its main calculation feature is Baker's Percentage, which expresses every ingredient in a recipe as a percentage of one base ingredient, usually flour for bread and brioche, or chocolate for ganache. This makes it easy to compare recipes and to scale a formula up or down to a different batch size while keeping the same ratios. Beyond calculations, the agent also answers pastry science questions using a curated knowledge base covering topics like ganache ratios, mousse stability, meringue types, caramel temperatures, and choux pastry leavening. Setting it up means copying an agent definition file into a project's Claude Code agents folder, or into a global folder to make it available everywhere, then copying over the included scripts and recipe data folders. A person adds their own recipes as markdown files with a small metadata header, following one of two supported formats, a bilingual ingredient table or a simple bullet list. Once installed, Claude Code automatically routes pastry related questions to this agent, so a user can simply ask things like how to scale a brioche recipe to a specific amount of flour, or what ratio of cream to chocolate makes a good ganache. There is also a standalone command line script that works without Claude Code at all, letting someone search recipes, look up an ingredient, calculate Baker's Percentage for a recipe file, or scale a recipe to a target weight directly from the terminal. It requires only Python 3.9 or newer, with no external dependencies. The project code is released under the MIT license, though the README notes that the actual recipe files are not included in the repository, since recipes sourced from culinary schools or cookbooks may carry their own copyright.