Team Gen

/team-gen — Generate an agent team from a product description

This skill turns "build me a team" from a one-off craft into a measurable pipeline. It composes new teams from validated archetypes, then runs the evaluator on the result so you start with grade-A specialists, not whatever you happened to write at 2am.

Quick start

# From a PRD file
/team-gen ./docs/product.md --target .

# Inline brief (you'll be asked clarifying questions)
/team-gen "An e-commerce backend with TypeScript API + React web + Stripe payments"

# Dry-run: show what would be generated, don't write
/team-gen ./docs/product.md --target . --dry-run

Procedure

1. Parse the brief

• If the argument is a file path, read it.
• If inline, treat the string as the brief.
• Extract:
  • Domains (which services exist: api, web, mobile, payments, data, ml, devops, etc.)
  • Tech stack (TypeScript / Go / Python / Rust / Flutter, Postgres / Mongo, Vercel / GCP, etc.)
  • Team size hint (small = 4–6 specialists, default = 7–9, large = 10–12)
  • Constraints (regulated industry, multi-locale, always-on monitor needed, etc.)
• If anything is ambiguous, ask the user via AskUserQuestion. Do not invent.

2. Pick archetypes

Available agent archetypes in plugins/agents-team/templates/agents/:

• orchestrator — Opus, broad tools, delegates to all specialists
• tech-leader — Opus, read-only, architecture review
• domain-engineer — Sonnet, narrow whitelist, owns one path; instantiate one per domain
• designer — Sonnet, design system + UX
• qa-engineer — Sonnet, isolation: worktree
• security-engineer — Sonnet, read-mostly, OWASP focus
• devops-engineer — Sonnet, broad bash, smallest pipeline diffs
• monitor — Haiku, background: true, silent-by-default

Always include orchestrator + qa-engineer + security-engineer. Add specialists per detected domain. Add a monitor if the team is ≥6 agents or the brief mentions "always-on" / "production".

3. Pick rules

plugins/agents-team/templates/rules/ has 13 numbered rule templates. Always include 01-plan-first, 03-definition-of-done, 04-clarify-unknowns, 08-client-first-communication, 09-no-quick-fixes, 13-model-selection. Add 02-service-boundaries and 10-style-per-service if there are 2+ services. Add 12-security-vapt if the brief mentions auth, payments, PII, or external traffic.

4. Pick hooks

plugins/agents-team/templates/hooks/ has notify, session-init, teammate-idle-gate, post-commit-check. Default to all four. The settings.json.partial wires them up.

5. Build a team.json spec

Write a JSON file at <target>/.claude/team.json (or /tmp/team-gen-<timestamp>.json for dry-run) with this shape:

{
  "team_name": "<team-name>",
  "services": ["api", "web", "payments"],
  "primary_locale": "en",
  "orchestrator": {
    "archetype": "orchestrator",
    "values": {
      "name": "<team>-orch",
      "description": "<routing description, third person, includes 'use when' trigger>",
      "color": "#5B8DEF",
      "display_name": "<friendly name>",
      "role_title": "Routing & Sequencing",
      "specialists": "api-engineer, web-engineer, qa-engineer, security-engineer",
      "delegations": "API change → api-engineer\nWeb UI change → web-engineer\n..."
    }
  },
  "agents": [
    {
      "archetype": "domain-engineer",
      "values": {
        "name": "api-engineer", "description": "...", "color": "#22C55E",
        "display_name": "API Engineer", "domain": "API",
        "owned_paths": "services/api/",
        "primary_language": "TypeScript", "test_framework": "Vitest",
        "build_command": "pnpm --filter api build",
        "lint_command": "pnpm --filter api lint"
      }
    }
  ],
  "skills": [],
  "rules": ["01-plan-first", "03-definition-of-done", ...],
  "hooks": ["notify", "session-init", "teammate-idle-gate"]
}

Every agent value must be filled — descriptions in third person, use when/use proactively/MUST BE USED triggers present, names lowercase-hyphens. The static linter will flag misses.

6. Materialize

python3 plugins/agents-team/lib/gen/scaffold.py <team.json> --target <project-dir>

This:

• Creates <target>/.claude/{agents,skills,rules,hooks}.
• Renders archetype templates with each agent's values.
• Copies rules with {{services}} / {{primary_locale}} filled in.
• Copies hooks with {{TEAM_NAME}} filled in, marks them executable.
• Merges settings.json.partial into <target>/.claude/settings.json.
• Runs the static linter (/evaluate-agent) on every produced agent + skill — the self-eval gate.

Gate flags

• --min-grade A|B|C|D|F — lowest acceptable grade per produced agent. Default B. Any agent below the floor exits with code 3 even when no agent triggered a revise/reject verdict. Use --min-grade A for production teams.
• --no-self-eval — skips the linter entirely. Hard-gated: requires AGENTS_TEAM_DEV=1 in the environment, otherwise exits 64. The gate exists to catch the mistakes you'll make at 2am; do not skip it for production runs.

Exit codes

7. Read the self-eval report

If any agent comes back with verdict: reject, fix the offending values and re-run. Common fixes:

• Description too short / vague → expand to ≥80 chars with a use when clause.
• Reviewer role with Edit in tools → drop write tools.
• Body says read-only but tools include write → reconcile.

The whole point of the evaluator is that you don't ship a sub-par team because you forgot to put a use-when trigger in a description.

8. Idempotence

• If <target>/.claude/agents/<name>.md already exists, ask before overwriting. Use AskUserQuestion.
• If the user wants to regenerate cleanly, archive the old .claude/ to .claude.bak.YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS/ first.
• Re-running with the same team.json is safe (idempotent file writes).

Output

Generated team for E-Shop at /Users/.../my-shop/.claude
  agents: 6
  skills: 1
  rules: 8
  hooks: 4
  settings: 1

=== Self-evaluation ===
  shop-orch.md           A  100/100  ship
  api-engineer.md        A   97/100  ship
  web-engineer.md        A  100/100  ship
  payments-engineer.md   A   95/100  ship
  qa-engineer.md         A   97/100  ship
  security-engineer.md   A  100/100  ship
=== Self-eval worst verdict: exit 0 ===

When to use this skill

• Brand-new project that needs a Claude Code agent team.
• Existing team where you want to regenerate cleanly from a refreshed PRD.
• Proof-of-concept where you want a team standing up in minutes.

Anti-patterns

• Inventing details the PRD doesn't specify. If the user said "TypeScript backend" and didn't pick a framework, ask. Don't pick Express on their behalf.
• Two specialists with overlapping mandates. The generator must enforce a clean delegation graph. If api-engineer and services-engineer both say "owns the backend", merge them.
• Skipping the self-eval gate. It exists to catch the mistakes you'll make at 2am. --no-self-eval is for development only, not for shipping.
• Auto-overwriting an existing team. Always ask, archive first.
• Persona names from sentra-hub or orch. Templates are de-personalized. Keep them that way unless the user explicitly asks for personas.

References

• Templates: plugins/agents-team/templates/{agents,skills,rules,hooks}/
• Renderer: plugins/agents-team/lib/gen/render.py
• Scaffolder: plugins/agents-team/lib/gen/scaffold.py
• Self-eval: /evaluate-agent (Phase 1 static linter)
• Sentra-hub layout (canonical reference for what "good" looks like): /Users/fadymondy/Sites/sentra/sentra-hub/.claude/

Source: fadymondy/agents-team — distributed by TomeVault.