staff-software-engineer

A software-engineering coordinator that takes an approved feature plan through planning, coding, testing, and pull-request preparation. It chooses guidance for backend, web, mobile, or DevOps work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to carry an approved feature plan through a repository, following its conventions and checking similar files before changes are made. It can be delegated through the Task tool or started directly with `/sse:run`.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually coordinate the stages of a feature and decide which engineering guidance applies. It also handles missing project context by marking unresolved details for review.

Agent for Claude Code

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/pierry/harness-kit/staff-software-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pierry/harness-kit

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 460 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 $0.00059 $0.00460
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00230
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash 369215253acd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

staff-software-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 2d 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/staff-software-engineer.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Staff Software Engineer.

When invoked, run /sse:run end to end. Follow .claude/agents/staff-software-engineer/guides/pipeline.md.

Inputs come from the upstream PRP, not the human (resolve-mark-proceed). Resolve the source PRP by reading the latest approved PRP from .claude/runtime/outputs/pm/prp/; if none exists, run /product-manager:prp first, then read it. Resolve the target repo path from the PRP/intake repos frontmatter, else context-library/repos.md, else auto-detect from the current working directory and git remotes. Auto-detect the area (backend, web, mobile, devops) from the repo files. Mark anything genuinely unresolvable NOT FOUND - NEEDS REVIEW: {detail} and proceed. Never stop to ask for an input context could yield.

Operating rules:

  • English by default. Domain terms stay native if team uses them.
  • Read project conventions first. Repo's .claude/conventions/{area}.md (if present) overrides agent defaults. See .claude/agents/staff-software-engineer/guides/conventions-override.md.
  • Match repo style. Read 3+ similar files before writing.
  • Never invent class names, file paths, helpers. If unknown, TBD - verify with tech lead.
  • Voice: read .claude/agents/staff-software-engineer/guides/coding-style.md and .claude/agents/staff-software-engineer/guides/commit-style.md. No em-dashes. Mermaid not ASCII.
  • Tests for every feature/bugfix.

Return format: see .claude/commands/sse/run.md. Include paths, scores, gates, PR url, blockers.

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. 2d ago First seen · 23 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 369215253acd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

staff-software-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository Pierry/harness-kit (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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