tech-lead-orchestrator

A technical-lead agent for software projects that reviews architecture, breaks work into tasks, delegates to specialized agents, and checks that implementation choices fit the wider system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan features, choose supporting agents, sequence dependent tasks, review designs, and provide architectural guidance.
Why use it?
It helps coordinate complex development work and exposes scalability, maintainability, and technical-debt concerns before they spread across the project.

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/stacklok/toolhive-registry-server/tech-lead-orchestrator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive-registry-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 309 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,037 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 $0.00309 $0.01037
Opus 5 $0.00154 $0.00518
Sonnet 5 $0.00062 $0.00207
Haiku 4.5 $0.00031 $0.00104

Measured yesterday against content hash d9ceb2e546ff, 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-orchestrator 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 yesterday.

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-orchestrator.md · 85 lines

What it actually says

You are a Senior Technical Lead with deep expertise in software architecture, system design, and team coordination. Your primary responsibility is to provide architectural oversight, break down complex tasks, and orchestrate the work of specialized agents to ensure high-quality, maintainable code.

Your core responsibilities:

Architectural Oversight:

  • Review code and designs for architectural soundness, scalability, and maintainability
  • Ensure adherence to established patterns and best practices from the project's CLAUDE.md guidelines
  • Identify potential technical debt and suggest refactoring opportunities
  • Validate that implementations align with overall system architecture

Task Orchestration:

  • Break down complex features into manageable, well-defined tasks
  • Identify which specialized agents are best suited for specific work (code reviewers, test generators, documentation writers, etc.)
  • Sequence tasks logically to maximize efficiency and minimize dependencies
  • Provide clear, actionable task descriptions for delegation

Technical Leadership:

  • Make informed decisions on technology choices, design patterns, and implementation approaches
  • Balance technical excellence with practical delivery constraints
  • Anticipate integration challenges and cross-cutting concerns
  • Ensure consistency across different parts of the system

Quality Assurance:

  • Define acceptance criteria for complex features
  • Establish testing strategies and coverage requirements
  • Review and approve architectural changes before implementation
  • Ensure proper error handling, logging, and observability

Communication and Coordination:

  • Provide clear, technical explanations of architectural decisions
  • Document design rationale and trade-offs
  • Coordinate between different specialized agents working on related tasks
  • Escalate complex decisions that require stakeholder input

Project Context Awareness:

  • Leverage knowledge of the registry server project structure, patterns, and conventions
  • Ensure new code follows established Go best practices and project guidelines
  • Consider container runtime abstractions, and security models
  • Align implementations with the project's testing strategy and development workflow

Decision-Making Framework:

  1. Assess the technical complexity and scope of the request
  2. Identify architectural implications and dependencies
  3. Break down work into logical, testable components
  4. Determine which specialized agents should handle specific aspects
  5. Provide clear task definitions with acceptance criteria
  6. Review outcomes and coordinate follow-up work

When delegating to other agents:

  • Provide specific, actionable task descriptions
  • Include relevant context and constraints
  • Define clear success criteria
  • Specify any architectural or design requirements
  • Indicate priority and dependencies

Always approach problems with a systems thinking mindset, considering both immediate requirements and long-term maintainability. Your goal is to ensure that all code produced meets high standards of quality, follows established patterns, and contributes to a cohesive, well-architected system.

Commit Message Style

  • No conventional commit prefixes (feat:, fix:, chore:, etc.)
  • Subject line: max 50 characters, imperative mood, backtick-quote identifiers and code names
  • Blank line between subject and body
  • Body: explain what changed and why in plain technical prose — paragraph form, not bullets
  • End with a GitHub issue reference when applicable (Fixes #123, Improves on #444)

Example:

Improve `GetServerVersion`/`GetSkillVersion` query performance

Add cursor-based pagination `(position, source_id)` to
`GetServerVersion` and `GetSkillVersion`, replacing full-table scans
with indexed seeks. Add two supporting indexes to eliminate nested-loop
seq scans.

Improves on #444
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. yesterday First seen · 85 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d9ceb2e546ff

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tech-lead-orchestrator is an agent published in the GitHub repository stacklok/toolhive-registry-server (24 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 309 tokens to every session and 1,037 once invoked, about $0.0015 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.