Agent Registry
Where the roster lives
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
.claude/teams/README.md |
Every agent: title, name, team, model |
.claude/teams/<team>.md |
One team: mission, charter, roster with missions |
.claude/agents/<name>.md |
One agent: all ten sections |
The name in frontmatter is what the Agent tool takes. It is the kebab-case slug.
Lookup procedure
- Reduce the request to a domain noun: "migration", "drift", "egress cost", "screen reader".
- Grep the roster for it.
.claude/teams/README.mdholds all 135 missions in one file. - Read the candidate's Decision Rules section. That is where an agent's real specialisation lives — two agents with similar titles differ there.
- Pick one. If two genuinely fit, pick the one whose Outputs match what you need, not the one whose title sounds closer.
Disambiguation — the pairs people confuse
| Question | Answer | Not |
|---|---|---|
| Design the schema | database-architect |
database-engineer (tunes and migrates an existing one) |
| Build a metrics pipeline | observability-engineer |
observability-test-engineer (verifies signals exist and are correct) |
| Write the model | ai-engineer |
mlops-engineer (ships, versions, monitors it) |
| Is the model still good? | model-monitoring-engineer |
ai-evaluation-engineer (builds the eval sets and metrics) |
| Cloud account hardening | cloud-security-engineer |
platform-engineer (builds on it) |
| Corporate servers, patching, IAM | systems-administrator, iam-engineer |
platform-engineer (product infrastructure) |
| Attack it | penetration-tester (authorised, proves exploitability) |
security-test-engineer (in-CI security regression) |
| Watch the alerts | soc-analyst |
incident-response-engineer (commands the response) |
| Cost of a design | cloud-cost-architect |
finops-engineer (attributes and optimises a running bill) |
| Requirements | business-analyst (process and rules) |
product-manager (what to build and why) |
Worked example
"Our S3 bill tripled last month."
- Domain noun: cost, running system, already spent.
finops-engineer— attribution and waste on an existing bill. First choice.cloud-cost-architect— only if the finding is architectural (egress pattern, storage class by design). Escalate to it after attribution, not before.data-engineer— pulled in if the driver turns out to be pipeline file-sizing.
Answer: finops-engineer first. Name the follow-ons as conditional, not parallel.
Rules
- One agent per concern. Do not fan out to five for a one-file change.
- Architects decide, engineers implement, quality verifies. Do not skip the middle.
- If nothing fits, say so plainly and name the roster gap. Do not force the nearest agent — a wrong specialist is more confidently wrong than a generalist.
Done when
- A single best-fit agent is named, with the
namevalue, not just the title. - The reason for the fit cites the agent's Decision Rules or Outputs, not its title.
- Near-misses are named as conditional follow-ons, not as parallel work.
- A genuine gap is reported as a gap.