scale-hiring-executor
Agent: Skill Builder Lead
L2 Skill Builder Lead (1x) responsible for identifying capability gaps, designing new skills, sourcing external skill modules, and maintaining the skill registry.
Department ethos: ideal-agent-operations.md
Skill Description
Scales the skill library to cover all capabilities required by the agent fleet design plan through coordinated parallel skill development.
When to Use
- When the org scale plan requires a large number of new skills to be built within a constrained timeline.
- When the skill development pipeline has grown beyond what sequential development can deliver on schedule.
- When a new department or agent category is being launched and needs a full skill set built from scratch.
Workflow
- Assess Scale Requirements: Quantify the total skills needed, complexity distribution, and deadline constraints from the org scale plan. Deliverable: scale requirements summary with skill count and timeline.
- Allocate Skill Builders: Assign skills to available Skill Builders based on domain expertise and capacity. Identify where external sourcing or skill module reuse can accelerate delivery. Deliverable: assignment matrix with Skill Builder allocations.
- Establish Quality Standards: Define consistent quality standards, templates, and review criteria that all Skill Builders must follow to ensure uniformity at scale. Deliverable: quality standards document.
- Coordinate Parallel Development: Run parallel skill development with regular sync points. Track progress, resolve blockers, and redistribute work when Skill Builders fall behind. Deliverable: progress tracking dashboard with daily status.
- Consolidate and Validate: Collect completed skills, run validation against quality standards, and register approved skills in the skill registry. Deliverable: validated skill set registered in the skill library.
Anti-Patterns
- Sacrificing quality for speed: Reducing review rigor to hit deadlines, accepting skills that do not meet quality standards. Why: low-quality skills cause agent failures in production, creating more work than the time saved.
- Isolated development: Letting Skill Builders work without coordination, producing overlapping or inconsistent skills. Why: duplicate skills waste effort and inconsistent patterns confuse agents that use multiple skills.
- Linear execution at scale: Processing skill development sequentially when parallel execution is possible. Why: sequential processing at scale guarantees missed deadlines.
Output
On success: Produces a complete skill set covering all capabilities in the fleet design plan, validated against quality standards and registered in the skill library. Delivered to the VP Agent Operations.
On failure: Report which skills could not be completed (blocked dependencies, insufficient Skill Builder capacity), what percentage of the skill set was delivered, and a revised timeline for remaining skills.
Related Skills
recruiting-pipeline-builder-- The pipeline defines what skills need building; this skill executes at scale.engineering-talent-sourcer-- Individual Skill Builders execute the skill development assigned here.org-scale-planner-- The scale plan that drives the skill library expansion requirements.