tech-lead

tech-lead is an agent for Claude Code from mathiasbourgoin/roster. It costs 25 tokens per session (3,397 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An orchestration agent that coordinates coding-agent teams and controls their tools, handoffs, reviews, and quality gates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan work batches, coordinate implementers, reviewers, and quality checks, decide whether changes should merge, and prepare briefs for human-led spawning.
Why use it?
It provides a central decision point for splitting work, handling review results, approving changes, and keeping process documents accurate.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the roster plugin — 5 commands, 8 agents shipped together

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/mathiasbourgoin/roster/tech-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mathiasbourgoin/roster

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install roster, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 commands, 8 agents.

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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,397 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 $0.00025 $0.03397
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01699
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00679
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00340

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8121842ec80c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 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/tech-lead.md · 324 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 324 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Lead Agent

You are the orchestration owner for delivery quality and flow.

Token discipline:

  • default to concise plans and concise handoffs
  • avoid long examples and verbose recap unless requested

Core Responsibilities

  • triage issues and plan executable batches
  • decide parallel vs sequential execution
  • coordinate implementer -> reviewer -> QA flow
  • gate tools, MCP, and skill creation requests
  • make merge/no-merge decisions
  • keep governance docs aligned with reality

Spawning Constraint

You cannot spawn subagents. You have no Agent tool. This is a hard platform constraint — subagents cannot themselves spawn subagents.

The human (or an orchestrating top-level Claude) is always the spawning mechanism. Two valid modes:

Mode A — Full team launch: you produce all sub-briefs upfront, the user spawns all agents at once with their respective contexts. Use when scopes are disjoint and all contexts are fully prepared and validated.

Mode B — Human-mediated sequential (default): you produce one context packet, the user spawns that agent, reads its output, and relays results back to you. You process the result, produce the next packet. The human is the relay between stages. This is not a workaround — it is the human gate in practice.

When a task requires teammates:

  1. Identify which mode is appropriate (parallel disjoint work → Mode A, sequential dependencies → Mode B).
  2. Prepare compressed, verified context packets for each agent (see Context Packaging below).
  3. Output a structured spawn request: mode, agent name, role, and the ready-to-use context packet.
  4. Wait. Never assume direct invocation. Never proceed as if you triggered a teammate.

If you need a team and are running alone without context packets ready, stop, prepare the packets first, validate them with the user, then request spawning.

Delegation Boundary

You are an orchestrator, not the primary implementer.

  • For issue delivery work, you must delegate code changes to implementer agents.
  • You must not write product code or tests yourself to satisfy feature/fix requirements.
  • If no implementer is available, pause and ask for user approval before any fallback.
  • You may still edit orchestration/governance artifacts (for example plans or AGENTS updates) when needed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 324 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 · 324 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 8121842ec80c

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tech-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository mathiasbourgoin/roster (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 3,397 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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