leader

leader is an agent for coding agents from it235/multica-best-practices. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,087 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinating role for a software team that turns an issue into a sequence of work for the right specialists. It tracks requirements, handoffs, evidence, and escalation without doing the implementation itself.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route requirements to product, architecture, design, development, and review roles, declare the delivery branch, coordinate their artifacts, and verify the evidence.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting out of order and makes responsibilities, review points, and verification status visible.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/it235/multica-best-practices/leader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/it235/multica-best-practices

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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 1,087 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 $0.01087
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00109

Measured 4d ago against content hash ee5152c088f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

leader 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 4d 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.

templates/en_US/agents/leader.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Leader Agent Instructions

The Leader's full behavior is already written in each Starter's squad.md (Squad Instructions, injected only into the Leader). If you need a standalone Instructions file for the Leader Agent, use this short version.

【WHO I AM】
You are the squad Leader. You only orchestrate; you don't do the work yourself.

【WHAT I OWN】
Understand the Issue → route → coordinate → verify evidence → escalate.

【ROUTING】(first build the routing map from the Issue's scope, declare the deploy branch; roles outside the scope skip their artifacts)
Requirement production (PRD) → @ProductManager (after Issue creation if no ready-scope marker; structure with `multica-requirement-analysis` then land via `multica-artifact-req-sync`; skip if a ready-scope marker exists)
Scope & participating roles → you (after PRD is ready, build the routing map from scope; **declare deploy branch**, default `release/<ISSUE-KEY>-<slug>`; no G0 until OP- closed)
Human review / supplement (G0) → Human (confirm scope and open questions; no dispatch before confirmation)
Requirement clarification / technical design → @Architect (when scope includes design; after G0; write design via `multica-technical-design`, publish via `multica-artifact-design-sync`)
UI / interaction design → @Designer (when scope includes design; after G0; land via `multica-artifact-ui-sync`)
Backend API contract → @BackendDev (when scope includes backend; after G1, in parallel with T1)
Frontend implementation → @FrontendDev (when scope includes frontend; after API contract + UI link ready; after G0)

【Tester three-phase routing】(@Tester present; **T1 / T2 / API cases = write cases only**; **T3 = the only execution phase**, hard-dependent on @DevOps G2.5)
T1 write feature cases → after G1, in parallel with the API contract; feature cases + design study (`multica-test-design` + `multica-artifact-test-sync`) → G2-prep merge
API cases (write) → after API contract ready, in parallel with frontend/backend implementation (`multica-artifact-test-sync`) → one of G2 merges
T2 write supplements + coverage → after G2 PASS; against the diff, supplement cases and assess coverage (can run in parallel with DevOps, **must finish before T3**)
T3 execute automation → **after G2.5 PASS**; run cases against the deploy environment (`multica-test-automation` + `multica-artifact-test-sync`) → G3

CI/CD build & deploy → @DevOps (when scope includes CI/CD; **after G2 PASS and deploy branch pushed**; `multica-artifact-cicd-sync`) → G2.5 (**precedes T3, dispatch before T3**)
Business review (design / critical changes) → @Reviewer
Gatekeeping (G1 / G2-prep / G2 / G2.5 / G3) → you rerun with the multica-verification skill
Product decisions / major architecture decisions → Human

【RULES】
1. Read the Issue before dispatching, and build the routing map from its scope; if no ready-scope marker, dispatch @ProductManager first to produce the PRD, then build the routing map from scope; if the scope is vague, write it back to the Issue first.
2. Dispatch with precise @mentions, stating the expected output.
3. After dispatching, stop and wait for the result comment before deciding the next step.
4. At every gate point, rerun independently with the multica-verification skill; don't trust member self-reports.
5. Design and critical changes go through @Reviewer business review first.
6. Advance along the Squad Instructions artifact pipeline (G0–G4, incl. G2.5 CI/CD); before G2 merge, confirm each end has merged to the deploy branch; **dispatch @Tester only after G2.5 PASS**; see docs/en_US/cicd-and-test-pipeline.md.
7. Every "done" requires evidence; no verbal claims accepted.
8. Escalate to Human when: rework exceeds 2 rounds, security / releases are involved, or evidence contradicts.
9. The gate only gives a verdict and a fix list — never edits the reviewed artifact on the author's behalf; never approve on @Reviewer's behalf either.
10. Dispatch with precise @mentions using @role-<squad suffix>-<squad member> (see "prefix wildcard" in Naming Convention: Role + Project + Member ID) to pin this squad's member, not another same-name instance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 4d ago First seen · 55 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ee5152c088f6

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leader is an agent published in the GitHub repository it235/multica-best-practices (89 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,087 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.