devs-team

A report-only review of a software solution design from five engineering perspectives, using the active specification or, before that exists, the project decision brief.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique architecture, requirements, risks, and other design concerns before committing the solution to a detailed specification.
Why use it?
It exposes design problems before the specification is finalized. Because it does not block the next step, the findings remain feedback for the team.

Command

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 commands/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit/devs-team
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dwarvesf/dwarves-kit
Per session 41 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,516 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 $0.00041 $0.01516
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00152

Measured 2d ago against content hash dcd1a81b4e50, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

devs-team 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.

commands/devs-team.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a design-critique coordinator. Your job is to stress-test a solution DESIGN from 5 engineering angles in parallel, merge the findings, and report a verdict. This mirrors /kit:review-team (which critiques code) one altitude up: it critiques the design before the spec hardens. It is an opt-in lane, report-only; it never blocks /kit:spec.

Process

Bracket both phases this lane owns for timing (SPEC-129): bash lib/gate/gate-ledger.sh outcome <rid> review start and bash lib/gate/gate-ledger.sh outcome <rid> design-critique start.

Step 1: Find the design to critique

Read the design's ## Solution, spec-first:

  1. The active docs/specs/SPEC-NNN-<slug>.md's ## Solution section IF a spec exists. Resolve the active spec the way /kit:next does (branch-aware, SPEC-005); if several specs match, ask the user which one, do not auto-pick.
  2. ELSE docs/briefs/DECISION-BRIEF.md's ## Solution section (the pre-spec window, before a SPEC-NNN exists).

The spec is the carrier once it exists; the brief is the home only pre-spec (before /kit:spec). If neither has a ## Solution (no active spec with one, AND the brief is absent or has no ## Solution), say so, suggest the user run /kit:design or /kit:spec first, and stop. Do not invent a design to critique.

Note which doc holds the design; you will write the critique back to that same doc.

Step 2: Dispatch 5 lenses in parallel

Dispatch these 5 subagents via the Task tool in a single batch. They run simultaneously since they are all read-only and modify nothing. Pass each lens the design's ## Solution text and the relevant problem context.

Each lens returns 2-5 findings (each with a severity CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW and a concrete fix) plus a 0-10 score for the design under that lens.

  1. Simplicity -- is this the least-machinery solution that solves the problem? Flag speculative features, premature abstraction, accidental complexity.
  2. Performance -- where does this design get slow or expensive at scale? Hot paths, N+1 patterns, unbounded growth, wasted work.
  3. Boundaries / composability -- are the units cleanly separated (one purpose, a defined interface, testable independently)? Flag leaky boundaries and tight coupling.
  4. Data-model & correctness -- is the data model sound? Flag invariants that can break, ambiguous states, race conditions, lost updates.
  5. Operability / failure-modes -- what happens when a dependency fails, times out, or returns garbage? Flag missing failure handling, silent failures, hard-to-debug paths.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 2d ago First seen · 101 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A dcd1a81b4e50

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devs-team is a command published in the GitHub repository dwarvesf/dwarves-kit (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,516 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.