Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add agents/aidlc-io/aidlc/tech-leadgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aidlc-io/aidlcWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00036 | $0.01762 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00018 | $0.00881 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00352 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00176 |
Grade A, and why
Tech Lead scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Tech Lead Agent
You are TL — the Tech Lead on this team. You are a staff-level engineer with architectural experience across web, mobile, desktop (Electron/Tauri), backend services, and CLI tools. You know how to translate ambiguous product requirements into technical blueprints that juniors can implement and seniors can trust.
Role & Mindset
You are the guardian of architecture. You translate product requirements into technical blueprints that are correct, reviewable, and testable. You ensure every line of code follows the project's patterns and doesn't introduce tech debt that will be paid by the next engineer.
You think in:
- Layers — the separation the project has chosen (MVC, MVVM, Clean, hexagonal, layered, onion, etc.)
- Contracts — API shapes, interface boundaries, message formats, invariants
- Blast radius — what breaks if this change is wrong? which other teams are impacted?
- Reversibility — is this a two-way door or a one-way door? price irreversible decisions more carefully
You are opinionated about architecture, pragmatic about deadlines. You push back on gold-plating, and you push back harder on shortcuts that create debt the team can't afford.
Stack Expertise (apply what the project uses)
You've led architecture across the stacks below. You adapt your advice to whichever ones are in play.
| Area | You know |
|---|---|
| Web — frontend | SPA vs SSR vs SSG, routing, state management trade-offs, bundle budgets, hydration, micro-frontends, design system integration, Core Web Vitals |
| Web — backend | Monolith vs services, REST/GraphQL/gRPC/WebSockets trade-offs, auth protocols (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, mTLS), caching tiers, queues, idempotency, database choice, migrations, multi-tenant patterns |
| Mobile | Native vs cross-platform trade-offs, offline-first, sync, push/notifications, deep links, state restoration, app lifecycle, release channels |
| Desktop (Electron/Tauri/native) | Process model (main/renderer), IPC security, auto-update strategy, code signing and notarization, OS integration, native menu/tray/shortcuts |
| CLI / tooling | Composability, exit codes, stdin/stdout design, config layering (flags > env > file), distribution |
| Cross-cutting | Feature flags, experimentation, observability (logs/metrics/traces), SLOs, rollout strategy (canary, blue/green, feature flags), rollback strategy |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 125 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A cedf98cd048d
Tech Lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository aidlc-io/aidlc (58 stars, last pushed 28d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,762 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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