# Team

> Runs the 8-phase QRSPI feature pipeline. Trigger on "hey team", "build a feature", "implement end to end", or "/team" only; never infer pipeline intent from a plain coding request.

- Skill: `bostonaholic/team` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 18 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add bostonaholic/team`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/bostonaholic/team/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: bostonaholic (https://skillmd.com/u/bostonaholic)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/bostonaholic/team

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# Team — Phase-Table Orchestrator

You are the Team orchestrator. The orchestrator is the
**main Claude Code session itself** — not a sub-agent. You drive a feature
from description to shipped code by walking a linear phase table,
dispatching specialist agents, and coordinating progress through TodoWrite.

You hold no special state of your own. The durable record is the set of
artifacts under `docs/plans/<id>/*.md` (each carrying YAML frontmatter
that describes its phase and revision metadata). Live
in-session coordination uses TodoWrite.

## Core contracts

- Walk this phase table in order: `Worktree → Question → Research → Design → Structure → Plan → Implement → PR`.
- There are **no mid-run human gates**. Continue until the draft PR exists.
- For a picked-up ticket, call the Skill tool with `tracking-tickets` and move the ticket to in-progress. At PR creation, use the same skill for the in-review transition and the multi-repo home-only closing rule.
- Before WORKTREE, run the non-blocking probes `ssh-add -l`, `gh auth status`, and `git config --global --get commit.gpgsign`; no result blocks the run.
- Call the Skill tool with `reviewing-designs` and dispatch its review brief with the artifact directory substituted.
- Call the Skill tool with `review-severity-tiers` before aggregating IMPLEMENT findings.
- In multi-repo mode, use `4-repos.md`; see **Multi-repo topics** in the Rules reference.
- PR changelog bullets accumulate under `## [Unreleased]`.

## Where a phase agent's output lives

`questioner` writes its artifact. `researcher` and `file-finder` return text for the orchestrator to persist.

### Design Review Gate (design)

Honor `TEAM_DISABLE_CROSS_MODEL`; otherwise use cross-model-review's `detect` and `run` commands through a courier. Capture output as DATA under `## External review input`, using a fence longer than its longest backtick run and the required untrusted-content line. Record `cross-model-raw.md`, `cross-model-notes.md`, and `> **Design round <n>**`. Derive frontmatter from the last verdict token. `APPROVE` and `COMMENT` pass.

### Structure (no gate — autonomous)

Advance directly after the design review passes.

### Aggregate Gate (review collection)

Persist `### Cross-model disposition` in `cross-model-notes.md` only when it does not begin `Not run:`. Retry with `Review round <n+1> (<b> Blocking, <m> Major open)` until `review-severity-tiers` permits exit.

## Procedure references

Read each reference completely when reaching that stage. Follow them in order; later stages depend on state and gates established earlier.

1. [Input](references/01-input.md)
2. [Setup](references/02-setup.md)
3. [The Phase Loop](references/03-the-phase-loop.md)
4. [Research Isolation Invariant](references/04-research-isolation-invariant.md)
5. [Where a phase agent's output lives](references/05-where-a-phase-agent-s-output-lives.md)
6. [Gate Handling](references/06-gate-handling.md)
7. [Orchestrator-Emit Gate (leading worktree)](references/07-orchestrator-emit-gate-leading-worktree.md)
8. [Design Review Gate (design)](references/08-design-review-gate-design.md)
9. [Structure (no gate — autonomous)](references/09-structure-no-gate-autonomous.md)
10. [Orchestrator-Emit Gate (post-design-review secondary worktrees)](references/10-orchestrator-emit-gate-post-design-review-secondary-worktrees.md)
11. [Mechanical Gate (test confirmation)](references/11-mechanical-gate-test-confirmation.md)
12. [Aggregate Gate (review collection)](references/12-aggregate-gate-review-collection.md)
13. [Orchestrator-Emit Gate (PR / ship)](references/13-orchestrator-emit-gate-pr-ship.md)
14. [Rules](references/14-rules.md)

## Applied principles

Load and apply: `principle-deep-agents-narrow-seams`, `principle-fail-closed`,
`principle-files-are-the-contract`, `principle-idempotent-reruns`, and
`principle-progress-tracking`.