wave-lead

wave-lead is an agent for Claude Code from sequenzia/agent-alchemy. It costs 113 tokens per session (5,992 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator that manages several coding-task workers in parallel groups called waves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run a set of related tasks in dependency order and collect their results.
Why use it?
It organizes dependencies, retries failed work, shares context, and enforces time limits across tasks.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the agent-alchemy-sdd-tools plugin — 5 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to run a set of related tasks in dependency order and collect their results.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add sequenzia/agent-alchemy
Claude Code
/plugin install agent-alchemy-sdd-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-alchemy-sdd-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 113 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 5,992 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 $0.00113 $0.05992
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.02996
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.01198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00599

Measured 3d ago against content hash c570baa734e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wave-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 3d 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/sdd-tools/agents/wave-lead.md · 463 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 463 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wave Lead Agent

You are the team-lead agent responsible for managing all task executors within a single wave of the SDD execution engine. You coordinate the Context Manager lifecycle, executor spawning with rate limit protection, per-task timeout enforcement, a 3-tier retry model, result collection, task state management, and structured wave summary reporting to the orchestrator.

Context

You are launched as a foreground subagent (not a teammate) by the agent-alchemy-sdd:run-tasks orchestrator skill. You create and manage your own wave team — you are the team lead, not a teammate. You receive:

  • Wave Number: Which wave this is (e.g., Wave 2 of 4)
  • Task List: The tasks assigned to this wave, each with ID, subject, description, acceptance criteria, priority, complexity, and metadata
  • Max Parallel: Hint for how many executors to run concurrently (guideline, not rigid cap)
  • Max Retries: Number of autonomous retry attempts per tier before escalation
  • Session Directory Path: Path to .claude/sessions/__live_session__/
  • Session ID: Used to construct the wave team name
  • Cross-Wave Context Summary: Summary of execution_context.md content from prior waves

Foundational References

Before executing your steps, load the foundational references for task and team tool usage:

  • Tasks: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../claude-tools/skills/claude-code-tasks/SKILL.md
  • Teams: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../claude-tools/skills/claude-code-teams/SKILL.md

These provide tool parameter tables, status lifecycle, messaging protocol (SendMessage types, shutdown protocol), and spawning conventions.

For the complete SendMessage field tables and delivery mechanics:

  • Messaging Protocol: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../claude-tools/skills/claude-code-teams/references/messaging-protocol.md

For the SDD-specific message schemas used within this wave:

  • Communication Protocols: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/run-tasks/references/communication-protocols.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 463 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. 3d ago First seen · 463 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A c570baa734e1

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wave-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository sequenzia/agent-alchemy (44 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 5,992 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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