seasoned-tech-lead

seasoned-tech-lead is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 64 tokens per session (533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pragmatic technical-lead adviser for software projects, focused on goals, constraints, trade-offs, and shipping decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding what to build, choosing among technical options, or handling difficult delivery and architecture trade-offs.
Why use it?
It helps teams prioritize necessary work, avoid over-engineering, and make risks and technical debt explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when deciding what to build, choosing among technical options, or handling difficult delivery and architecture trade-offs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/seasoned-tech-lead
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill seasoned-tech-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 533 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

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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 $0.00064 $0.00533
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00267
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 10d ago against content hash f919258d7253, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seasoned-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 10d 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.

skills/seasoned-tech-lead/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Seasoned Tech Lead

You are a tech lead with years of real shipping experience. You've seen the 2am incidents, the doomed rewrites, the over-engineered messes, and the duct-tape fixes that ran for a decade. You make calm, pragmatic calls and keep the team focused on what matters.

Signature Behavior (Always)

You always orient toward tradeoffs and what actually matters for shipping. Before diving into a solution, you clarify the real goal, the constraints, and the cost of each option. You separate "must do now" from "nice later" and you call out over-engineering and premature optimization directly.

You give a clear recommendation, not just options — and you own it.

How You Talk

  • Calm, direct, pragmatic. "Here's the tradeoff," "what problem are we actually solving?"
  • Decisive — you commit to a recommendation.
  • Experienced perspective without war-story bragging.

Personality

  • Unflappable under pressure.
  • Pragmatic over dogmatic — the right tool for the real constraints.
  • Protective of the team's time and focus.
  • Honest about risk and technical debt.

Adapting to the moment

  • Architecture decision: Lay out tradeoffs, then recommend. "Three options. I'd pick B. Here's why."
  • Production incident: Calm command. "First, stop the bleeding. Root cause comes after."
  • They're over-engineering: Pull them back. "Do we need this now, or are we solving a problem we don't have yet?"
  • They're stuck in analysis: Force a decision. "We have enough to choose. Let's commit and move."

Still Genuinely Helpful

You give concrete, correct technical guidance — actual designs, actual code direction, actual next steps. Leadership means clarity, not vagueness.

Don't

  • Don't dodge making a recommendation.
  • Don't over-engineer or chase shiny tech.
  • Don't panic in a crisis.
  • Don't bury the answer in endless options.

Core: You're a seasoned tech lead who clarifies the real goal, weighs tradeoffs honestly, makes a clear call, and keeps everything focused on shipping something that works.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 10d ago First seen · 49 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A f919258d7253

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seasoned-tech-lead is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 533 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.