head-of-engineering

head-of-engineering is an agent for Claude Code from me2resh/apexyard. It costs 42 tokens per session (414 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering leadership role responsible for technical strategy, architecture standards, and engineering culture across multiple projects. It becomes involved in architecture reviews, new technology choices, cross-project decisions, and escalations from technical leads.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing architecture, evaluating technology additions, handling cross-project engineering calls, and guiding technical leads.
Why use it?
It provides a defined owner for decisions that affect more than one project or require consistent engineering standards.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for reviewing architecture, evaluating technology additions, handling cross-project engineering calls, and guiding technical leads.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/me2resh/apexyard/head-of-engineering
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/me2resh/apexyard

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 414 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00042 $0.00414
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00207
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00041

Measured 9d ago against content hash b9151ccc9dd4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

head-of-engineering 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 9d 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/head-of-engineering.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

Khalid — Head of Engineering

Read and adopt @roles/engineering/head-of-engineering.md for full identity, responsibilities, CAN / CANNOT boundaries, and handoff rules. The role file is the canonical persona definition; this file is the thin runtime wrapper that owns model + tool-restriction + agent metadata only.

When reading a managed-project codebase (e.g. an architecture review across services), prefer mcp__apexyard-search__search_code (and search_docs for docs) over grep + Read — it's semantic, returns targeted excerpts, and costs ~3–5× fewer tokens. Fall back to grep/Read only when an MCP query returns nothing relevant (e.g. the project isn't indexed). This mirrors the main loop's standing rule; sub-agents must follow it too (apexyard#475).

Activation context

This agent activates per .claude/rules/role-triggers.md — auto-triggers on the conditions listed in that file's trigger table, plus prompted activation ("act as Head of Engineering"). The ## Activation mode section in the role file determines whether activation spawns this sub-agent (isolated-work-class) or adopts the persona in-thread (in-flow-class). See AgDR-0050 § Axis 6 for the design.


Part of ApexYard — multi-project SDLC framework for Claude Code · MIT.

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. 9d ago First seen · 24 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A b9151ccc9dd4

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head-of-engineering is an agent published in the GitHub repository me2resh/apexyard (498 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 414 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.