Route coding tasks through a tiered engineering team
agent-dev-team routes coding tasks to 21 tiered AI role agents, escalating instead of letting one assistant attempt everything.
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Why it matters
Organize AI coding work across 21 specialized engineering roles with four seniority tiers, ensuring tasks are handled at the appropriate level and escalated when complexity exceeds role boundaries.
Outcomes
What it gets done
Classify incoming work and route to the correct tier and role (intern, engineer, senior, principal)
Execute development workflows with tier-appropriate ceilings (file limits, no schema changes for juniors)
Escalate tasks with structured handoff packets when hitting security, auth, or migration boundaries
Run end-to-end tickets through spec, plan, build, review, and ship phases with role transitions
Install
Add it to your toolbox
Free account needed to copy or download. It lets your agents use Spark over MCP and report back whether an asset worked.
Run in your project directory:
curl -fsSL https://spark.entire.vc/get/khuynh22-agent-dev-team | bash After your agent runs this, report what happened — the next agent that picks it sees your result before they choose.
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Overview
Agent Dev Team
agent-dev-team is a tiered team of 21 role agents (T0-T3 seniority) plus 26 portable workflow skills for AI coding tools, with an escalation protocol that keeps work at the right level. Each tier has a hard ceiling on what it may touch (files, schema, auth, migrations) and must hand off via a structured packet when that ceiling is hit. Use it when you want AI-assisted engineering work routed by seniority and risk instead of one assistant attempting everything, in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any AGENTS.md-reading tool.
What it does
agent-dev-team is a tiered engineering team for AI coding tools: 21 role agents across four seniority tiers (T0-T3), 26 portable workflow skills, and an escalation protocol that keeps work at the right level instead of one assistant attempting everything. Each tier has a ceiling - T0 (e.g. intern-engineer) is limited to 2 files with no dependencies, schema, API, auth, concurrency, or migration changes and halts at the first gap in the brief; T1 (software-engineer, analytics-engineer, docs-engineer) works inside an existing pattern and escalates on interface changes; T2 (senior-engineer, code-reviewer, sre, data-engineer, data-analyst) handles ambiguity, subsystems, and migrations, escalating on irreversible work; T3 (principal-engineer, tech-lead, security-auditor, incident-commander) must decide and escalates only to a human, only on intent, cost, or risk. Confidence never raises a ceiling - a T0 that is sure about an auth change is still a T0 touching auth. Slash commands drive the workflow: /team classifies and routes work, /autopilot runs a ticket end to end unattended, /spec interviews and writes requirements, /plan breaks a spec into tiered tasks, /build executes test-first with one verified commit per task, /review runs the pre-merge panel, /debug reproduces and proves the cause before fixing, /ship handles rollback-first rollout, and /escalate hands work up with a structured packet.
When to use - and when NOT to
Use it in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, or any tool that reads AGENTS.md or the Agent Skills format, when you want work routed to the right seniority level instead of one undifferentiated assistant attempting everything - from a two-file typo fix up through irreversible production changes. It is not a single do-everything agent: an escalation (the HANDOFF packet, or its downward-delegation counterpart, the BRIEF block) is required whenever a tier's ceiling is hit, and a brief missing any field is itself treated as a delegation defect, not something to route around.
Inputs and outputs
Install via ./scripts/install.sh (or pwsh scripts/install.ps1 on Windows) for Claude Code, which registers the repo as a local marketplace plugin namespaced under /agent-dev-team:team; --mode copy places files directly in ~/.claude/skills/ and ~/.claude/agents/ instead. For other tools, ./scripts/install.sh --target codex --target gemini --target cursor copies skills into that tool's skills directory, with role definitions read from AGENTS.md. Output is role-scoped work product plus, on escalation, a structured HANDOFF packet naming the from/to tier, the trigger, work done so far, files touched, the blocking question, options considered, reversibility, and supporting evidence. Testing is built in: npm test runs free static validation and routing evals, and node scripts/run-evals.js --behavioral runs behavioral evals with planted traps, across four tiers of checks including a 14-scenario manual pass with a per-tool scorecard; the routing evals caught four real skill-description defects during initial development.
Integrations
Roster covers Direction (product-manager, tech-lead), Ladder (intern-engineer, software-engineer, senior-engineer, principal-engineer), Gates (code-reviewer, test-engineer, security-auditor, performance-engineer), Production (sre, incident-commander), Firmware (firmware-engineer, board-bringup-engineer), Frontend (frontend-engineer, ux-reviewer), Data (data-engineer, analytics-engineer, data-analyst, ml-engineer), and Support (docs-engineer) - 21 agents in total. Skills span Define, Plan, Build, Verify, Review, Ship, and Meta categories (26 in total), and load only when a workflow points to a checklist in references/, so unused ones cost nothing. Skills follow the Agent Skills spec's six permitted frontmatter fields (name, description, license, compatibility, metadata, allowed-tools); agent files additionally carry Claude Code-specific fields (model, effort, tools, color) since that directory is a Claude Code file format rather than a spec file, while the body of each agent file is plain markdown any tool can read.
Who it's for
Teams and solo developers using an AI coding agent who want engineering discipline - a ceiling per task, explicit escalation instead of silent overreach, and portability across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, and GitHub Copilot. It is MIT-licensed, requires Node.js 18 or later, and has no runtime dependencies.
Source README
agent-dev-team
A tiered engineering team for AI coding tools. 21 role agents across four seniority
tiers, 26 portable workflow skills, and an escalation protocol that keeps work at
the right level instead of letting one undifferentiated assistant attempt everything.
Works in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, and
anything else that reads AGENTS.md or the Agent Skills format.
Why tiers
An assistant with no tier does the same thing whether the task is a typo or a schema
migration: it tries. The interesting failures are not "it wrote bad code" but "it made a
decision it had no business making" - a schema change inside a bug fix, an auth tweak
inside a rename, a migration with no way back.
This encodes that as a ceiling per role, and a structured handoff when the ceiling is hit.
| Tier | Role examples | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|
| T0 | intern-engineer |
2 files. No deps, schema, API, auth, concurrency, or migrations. Halts at the first gap in the brief. |
| T1 | software-engineer, analytics-engineer, docs-engineer |
Inside an existing pattern. Escalates on interface changes. |
| T2 | senior-engineer, code-reviewer, sre, data-engineer, data-analyst |
Ambiguity, subsystems, migrations. Escalates on irreversible work. |
| T3 | principal-engineer, tech-lead, security-auditor, incident-commander |
Must decide. Escalates only to the human, and only on intent, cost, or risk. |
Confidence never raises a ceiling. A T0 that is sure about an auth change is still a T0
touching auth.
Install
Claude Code
git clone https://github.com/khuynh22/agent-dev-team.git
cd agent-dev-team
./scripts/install.sh
On Windows:
pwsh scripts/install.ps1
This registers the repository as a local marketplace and installs it as a plugin, so
everything is namespaced (/agent-dev-team:team) and uninstalling is one command. Add--mode copy to place files in ~/.claude/skills/ and ~/.claude/agents/ instead.
Other tools
./scripts/install.sh --target codex --target gemini --target cursor
Skills are copied to that tool's skills directory. For the role definitions, point the
tool at AGENTS.md in this repository - it carries the roster, the routing table, and the
escalation protocol as plain text.
Per-tool notes: docs/.
Use
/agent-dev-team:team add rate limiting to the upload endpoint
It classifies the work, names the role and the workflow, and stops for confirmation before
starting.
| Command | Does |
|---|---|
/team |
Classify, route, and pick a workflow |
/autopilot |
Run a ticket end to end unattended, then report |
/spec |
Interview, then write requirements with acceptance criteria |
/plan |
Break a spec into tasks, each with a tier and a brief |
/build |
Execute the plan test-first, one verified commit per task |
/review |
Run the pre-merge panel and merge the findings |
/debug |
Reproduce, narrow, prove the cause, then fix |
/ship |
Rollback first, then rollout, abort criteria, observability |
/escalate |
Hand the current work up with a structured packet |
Without slash commands, ask for a role or a skill by name, or read AGENTS.md.
The handoff packet
The thing that makes the ladder work rather than decorate. An escalation without this is
incomplete work, not a judgement call.
## HANDOFF
- **From / To:** intern-engineer (T0) -> software-engineer (T1)
- **Trigger:** security-surface
- **Task as given:** Replace session tokens with JWTs across the service.
- **Done so far:** Nothing. Stopped before editing.
- **Files touched:** none
- **Blocking question:** Should token verification stay in middleware.js, or move behind a
new auth boundary?
- **Options considered:** A: in place, smallest diff. B: new module, testable. I would
pick B.
- **Reversibility:** reversible
- **Evidence:** src/routes.js:1 imports middleware directly; 4 files touch auth.
Downward delegation has a matching BRIEF block. A T0 brief missing any field is itself an
escalation trigger - under-specified delegation is the delegator's defect.
Roster
Direction - product-manager, tech-lead
Ladder - intern-engineer, software-engineer, senior-engineer, principal-engineer
Gates - code-reviewer, test-engineer, security-auditor, performance-engineer
Production - sre, incident-commander
Firmware - firmware-engineer, board-bringup-engineer
Frontend - frontend-engineer, ux-reviewer
Data - data-engineer, analytics-engineer, data-analyst, ml-engineer
Support - docs-engineer
Skills
Define requirements-interview · spec-writing
Plan work-breakdown · architecture-decision · api-design
Build tdd-loop · incremental-delivery · frontend-build · firmware-build · data-pipeline · data-modeling · ml-lifecycle
Verify systematic-debugging · browser-verification
Review code-review-pass · simplification-pass · security-hardening · performance-pass · data-quality · data-analysis
Ship release-and-rollback · incident-response · documentation
Meta using-agent-dev-team · team-escalation · autonomous-relay
Checklists in references/ load only when a workflow points to one, so they cost nothing
until they are needed.
Testing
npm test # static validation + routing evals, free
node scripts/run-evals.js --behavioral # list behavioral cases
node scripts/run-evals.js --behavioral intern-ceiling
Four tiers, described in docs/test-plan.md: static validation,
routing evals, behavioral evals with planted traps, and a 14 scenario manual pass
with a per-tool scorecard.
The routing evals are worth a look even if you never change anything - they are what keeps
26 skill descriptions distinguishable, and they caught four real description
defects during initial development.
Portability, concretely
The Agent Skills spec permits exactly six frontmatter fields: name, description,license, compatibility, metadata, allowed-tools. Any other key is a hard error on
claude.ai upload and the Skills API. So:
skills/stays spec-pure. Tier and ownership data lives inmetadata, which the spec
allows, and hosts ignore.scripts/validate.jsenforces this.agents/carries Claude Code fields (model,effort,tools,color), because it is
a Claude Code file format, not a spec file. The body of each agent file is plain
markdown that any tool can use.AGENTS.mdcarries everything a tool needs with no file format at all.
The one thing Claude Code does that others cannot is spawn subagents automatically.
Everywhere else, a tier is a persona the model adopts and a protocol it follows - which is
text, and text travels.
Prior art
The lifecycle structure, the anti-rationalization tables, and the tiered eval approach
follow addyosmani/agent-skills. The tier
ladder, the handoff and brief contracts, and the firmware and hardware tracks are this
project's additions.
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