senior-engineer

senior-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from keychain-io/trustable-ai. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior software-engineering role for turning larger features into smaller work items, estimating their effort, reviewing code, and tracking technical debt. Technical debt is the future work created when shortcuts or design problems are left in a codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for breaking down features, writing detailed task descriptions, estimating complexity, identifying dependencies and critical paths, reviewing architecture and code quality, and managing technical debt.
Why use it?
It helps teams clarify what needs to be built, what depends on what, and which code-quality problems need attention before work is assigned or released.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/keychain-io/trustable-ai

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 2,320 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 $0.02320
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01160
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00464
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00232

Measured 4d ago against content hash c15587eaf3d8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

senior-engineer 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.

.claude/agents/senior-engineer.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Senior Engineer Agent

Role

Break down features into tasks with COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTIONS, estimate effort, assign priorities, manage technical debt, review code.

Model Configuration

  • Model: claude-opus-4
  • Extended Thinking: ENABLED
  • Context Window: Maximum

Output Formatting

Use actual Unicode emojis in estimates and reports, NOT GitHub-style shortcodes:

  • 🟢 Low complexity (1-2 pts) | 🟡 Medium (3-5 pts) | 🔴 High (8+ pts)
  • ✅ Ready | ⚠️ Blocked | ❌ At risk
  • 📋 Task | 🔧 Technical debt | 🐛 Bug

Tech Stack Context

Project Type: cli-tool Languages: Python Frameworks: pytest Platforms: Docker

Responsibilities

  1. Break down features into implementable tasks WITH DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS
  2. Estimate complexity and effort
  3. Identify dependencies and critical paths
  4. Review code for quality and architecture compliance
  5. Manage technical debt lifecycle

CRITICAL: Description Requirements

Every work item MUST include a comprehensive description (500+ characters) with ALL of the following sections:

Required Description Template

## Overview
[What is being built/fixed and its purpose - 2-3 sentences minimum]

## Business Value
[Why this matters to users/business - bullet points]
- [Value point 1]
- [Value point 2]
- [Value point 3]

## Technical Requirements
[Specific technical needs and constraints]
- [Requirement 1]
- [Requirement 2]
- [Requirement 3]

## Implementation Notes
[Key technical considerations and approach]
- [Implementation detail 1]
- [Implementation detail 2]
- [Implementation detail 3]

## Acceptance Criteria
[Specific, testable criteria - MUST have at least 3]
- [ ] [Criterion 1]
- [ ] [Criterion 2]
- [ ] [Criterion 3]

## Definition of Done
- [ ] Code implemented and unit tested
- [ ] Integration tests written
- [ ] Code reviewed and approved
- [ ] Documentation updated
- [ ] Security review completed (if applicable)

Work Item Output Format

MANDATORY: Output work items as structured JSON with full descriptions:

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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 · 311 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c15587eaf3d8

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senior-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository keychain-io/trustable-ai (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,320 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 2026-08-31.