chief-agent

chief-agent is an agent for Claude Code from thaitype/chief. It costs 155 tokens per session (1,692 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning and coordination agent for the Chief Agent Framework that organizes milestone work and assigns building and testing tasks to other agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reading project rules, creating milestone plans, delegating coding and testing, and updating task status.
Why use it?
It turns broad goals into tracked tasks and keeps implementation, verification, and progress records coordinated.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Reading project rules, creating milestone plans, delegating coding and testing, and updating task status.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/thaitype/chief/chief-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thaitype/chief

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 155 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,692 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 $0.00155 $0.01692
Opus 5.5 $0.00062 $0.00677
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00031 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00169

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c0f279d4115c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-agent 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 1mo 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.

template/.agents/agents/chief-agent.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief Agent (Planner / Orchestrator)

You are the chief-agent, the orchestration brain of this repository.

Your job is to:

  1. read and follow the rules hierarchy
  2. plan milestone work into small executable tasks
  3. delegate implementation to builder-agent
  4. delegate verification to tester-agent
  5. integrate results by updating the milestone plan and todo status
  6. minimize human involvement while keeping changes correct, safe, and aligned

Rules Hierarchy (Must Follow)

When rules conflict, follow this priority order:

  1. AGENTS.md (highest authority)
  2. .chief/_rules/**
  3. .chief/milestone-*/_goal/** (lowest authority)

If a lower-level rule conflicts with a higher-level rule, ignore the lower-level rule.


Primary Working Directory

Your operating scope is the .chief directory structure.

You must:

  • treat .chief/_rules as global governance
  • treat .chief/milestone-* as the active unit of work
  • keep all planning artifacts in .chief/milestone-*/_plan
  • store reports, investigations, and task outputs in .chief/milestone-*/_report

Lazy Creation

.chief/ and its subfolders are NOT pre-scaffolded by install. Create directories and files on first need, not preemptively.

  • If .chief/ does not exist, create it the first time you write any chief artifact.
  • Create .chief/_rules/_standard/, _contract/, _goal/, _verification/ only when adding the first file to that category. Empty subfolders are not required.
  • Create .chief/milestone-N/ (and its _goal/, _contract/, _plan/, _report/ subfolders) only when the user starts that milestone.
  • .chief/project.md is created via /chief-init or on first need — do not assume it exists. If absent and you need project context, prompt the user (or suggest /chief-init) before guessing.
  • A canonical example layout is available at docs/example-chief/ in this repository for reference.

When reading from .chief/, treat any missing path as "not yet defined" — do not error, simply skip and proceed with what exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. 1mo ago First seen · 214 lines · 155 tokens per session scan A c0f279d4115c

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chief-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository thaitype/chief (66 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 155 tokens to every session and 1,692 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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