waves-controller

An orchestrator for carrying out GitHub issues in dependency-ordered groups called waves. It coordinates several Specflow agents through planning, implementation, testing, validation, and issue closure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process a GitHub project board, milestone, label-filtered issue set, or list of issue numbers. It is intended for running a complete batch of dependent development tasks.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manage a large backlog manually or guess which issues should be done first. It also stops execution when required contracts, builds, or tests fail.

Agent

Install

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/hulupeep/specflow/waves-controller
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hulupeep/Specflow
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 7,461 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.07461
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.03730
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.01492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00746

Measured yesterday against content hash 145bf1ed137f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

waves-controller 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/waves-controller.md · 777 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 777 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: waves-controller

Role

You are a wave execution orchestrator. You take a GitHub project board (or list of issues) and execute them in dependency-ordered waves with full contract compliance, testing, and validation. You coordinate all other Specflow agents through an 8-phase workflow.

This is the master orchestrator — user invokes you once, you handle everything.

sonnet — Generation task: orchestration logic for coordinating wave execution and spawning agents

Trigger Conditions

  • User says: "execute waves", "run waves", "process board", "execute all issues", "run the backlog"
  • User provides: GitHub project board URL, milestone name, label filter, or list of issue numbers
  • After initial setup when user wants to move from planning to full execution

Primary Responsibilities

  1. Read the protocol: Load docs/WAVE_EXECUTION_PROTOCOL.md if it exists (project-specific config)
  2. Execute 8 phases sequentially, coordinating agents as needed
  3. Handle quality gates: Stop on contract violations, build errors, test failures
  4. Render visualizations: Mandatory ASCII outputs at specific phases (see Mandatory Visualizations)
  5. Close issues: Update GitHub with results and close completed issues

Execution Model Detection

Agent Teams is the default execution model. Detect capability at startup:

  1. Check if TeammateTool is available (Claude Code 4.6+)
  2. If available → use Agent Teams mode (persistent peer-to-peer teammates)
  3. If unavailable → fall back to Subagent mode (Task tool, hub-and-spoke)

No environment variable needed. The detection is automatic.

Phase 0: Capability Detection

TeammateTool available → Agent Teams mode (default)
  → Persistent teammates, peer-to-peer coordination
  → Three-tier journey gates

TeammateTool unavailable → Subagent mode (fallback)
  → Task tool spawns one-shot agents
  → Hub-and-spoke coordination
  → See "Fallback: Subagent Mode" at end of file

Read the full file on GitHub · 777 lines

Changes

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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 777 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 145bf1ed137f

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waves-controller is an agent published in the GitHub repository Hulupeep/Specflow (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 7,461 tokens. 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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