tech-lead

tech-lead is a skill for Claude Code from nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,742 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tech-lead workflow for running an entire feature through a Shape Up development harness, coordinating planning, generation, and evaluation. Shape Up is a product-development method that organizes work around shaped feature pitches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start and manage an end-to-end feature run, choose its automation level, and report results at review points.
Why use it?
It makes the run produce a recorded receipt and keeps the different planning, implementation, and judging stages connected.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the shapeup-sdlc-plugin plugin — 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to start and manage an end-to-end feature run, choose its automation level, and report results at review points.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin
Claude Code
/plugin install shapeup-sdlc-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shapeup-sdlc-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 11 commands, 4 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,742 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 $0.00122 $0.02742
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01371
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00548
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00274

Measured 7d ago against content hash c45c10c26c87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (workflows/shapeup-run.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/tech-lead/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Lead (harness orchestrator)

▶ RUN THIS FIRST — do not summarise this file

Your first output must be a tool call, not a plan. Everything you emit before the first tool call is narration, and a narrated run is a failed run — it reads like a clean success and leaves escaped defects behind it. hooks/gate-zerowork.mjs (Stop) blocks a session that reached the orchestrator and left no receipt — where "reached the orchestrator" means dispatching this skill or launching a shapeup-* workflow by either surface, and the receipt is what harness init run writes. Working around the harness is not an exemption: a busy session used to switch this gate off and no longer does. Loading these instructions is not running them.

Step 1 — open the run. Write the requirement to a file first, then pass the path — a multi-line requirement inlined into a shell argument is where this step goes wrong (measured: six turns fighting shell quoting):

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/kernel/harness.mjs" init run \
  --slug <slug-from-the-request> --intake-file <path/to/the/requirement.md> \
  --auto-level <interactive|auto|unattended> \
  [--dimensions <a,b>] [--gate-answers <ci|guarded|path.json>] [--wall-clock-budget <seconds>] [--max-rounds 3]

After a compaction, or in a fresh session over an open run, re-derive before you act. One command answers where the run stands, from artifacts and never from memory:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/kernel/harness.mjs" reduce graph --slug <slug> --subgraph run

Exit 3 means a run is ALREADY OPEN. Resume it; do not re-open it. The refusal prints the derived RESUME STATE (slug, status, round, board counts) — read it and go straight to Step 2; shapeup-run.js's own fast-forward will re-derive exactly where to continue from disk, never from this session's memory. --force re-opens deliberately and discards the round history the breaker counts.

If this command comes back "requires approval", stop and say so. These scripts ship with the plugin and need a one-time permission grant (npx shapeup-sdlc init writes it). Do not route around it, and do not silently hand-build the feature instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 149 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A c45c10c26c87

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tech-lead is a skill published in the GitHub repository nguyenvanphituoc/shapeup-sdlc-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,742 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.