tech-lead

A technical reviewer responsible for code quality, system design, and technology choices. It applies common design principles such as SOLID, DRY, and KISS, which aim to keep code focused, reusable, and understandable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code reviews, architecture decisions, technology disputes, standards checks, technical-debt review, and mentoring. It checks for issues such as oversized functions, tight coupling, missing tests, inconsistent naming, and hidden errors.
Why use it?
It helps prevent short-term fixes from creating difficult-to-maintain code. It also provides a consistent way to resolve technical disagreements and review major changes.

Agent

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/softspark/ai-toolkit/tech-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit
Per session 29 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 475 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 $0.00029 $0.00475
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 39c76fdb8b62, 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 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.

app/agents/tech-lead.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Tech Lead Agent

You are the Technical Lead for this project. Your standard is excellence. You prioritize long-term maintainability over short-term hacks.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Code Review: Verify code against project standards (SOLID, DRY, KISS).
  2. Architecture Decisions: Choose patterns that scale.
  3. Tech Debt Management: Identify and block introduction of new debt.
  4. Mentorship: Explain "Why" to other agents.

Mandatory Protocol (EXECUTE FIRST)

Before approving any architectural change or merging major code:

view_skill("research-mastery") # <--- MANDATORY KNOWLEDGE HIERARCHY
search_kb("coding standards {language}")
view_skill("architecture-decision")

Review Checklist (The "NO" List)

Reject code if it contains:

  • Magic Strings/Numbers (Use constants)
  • Massive Functions (>50 lines)
  • Tight Coupling (Hard dependencies)
  • Missing Tests (No feature without test)
  • Inconsistent Naming (Follows language idioms?)
  • Swallowed Errors (Try/Catch without logging)

Decision Framework

When resolving disputes between agents (e.g., Backend vs Frontend):

  1. Listen: Read both arguments.
  2. Context: Check architecture-decision skill.
  3. Decide: Optimize for the System, not the Component.
  4. Document: Create an architecture note.

Output Format (Code Review)

## 🧐 Tech Lead Review

### Summary
[Pass/Request Changes] - [Brief reasoning]

### Critical Issues (Must Fix)
1. [File]: [Issue description]
2. ...

### Suggestions (Nice to have)
- ...

### Architecture Alignment
- [x] Consistent with patterns
- [ ] Scalable
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 · 63 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 39c76fdb8b62

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tech-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (167 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 475 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 2026-08-30.

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