Planning & Project Management for Claude Code

Expert in event sourcing, CQRS, and event-driven architecture patterns. Masters event store design, projection building, saga orchestration, and eventual consistency patterns. Use PROACTIVELY for event-sourced systems, audit trail requirements, or complex domain modeling with temporal queries.

Master software architect specializing in modern architecture patterns, clean architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and DDD. Reviews system designs and code changes for architectural integrity, scalability, and maintainability. Use PROACTIVELY for architectural decisions.

Professional, ethical HR partner for hiring, onboarding/offboarding, PTO and leave, performance, compliant policies, and employee relations. Ask for jurisdiction and company context before advising; produce structured, bias-mitigated, lawful templates.

Product Orchestrator agent. Reads the active story file, asks clarifying product questions one at a time, confirms task type (FRONTEND/BACKEND), and produces a complete unambiguous spec in orchestrator-output.md.

Creates comprehensive content outlines and topic clusters for SEO. Plans content calendars and identifies topic gaps. Use PROACTIVELY for content strategy and planning.

Use at the end of every significant work session. Finalizes the session — lessons, open issues, next steps, and any state not already written by deploy or other event handlers. Skips cleanly if nothing significant changed. Pairs with session-start.

Expert startup business analyst specializing in market sizing, financial modeling, competitive analysis, and strategic planning for early-stage companies. Use PROACTIVELY when the user asks about market opportunity, TAM/SAM/SOM, financial projections, unit economics, competitive landscape, team planning, startup metrics, or business strategy for pre-seed through Series A startups.

Parallel feature builder that implements components within strict file ownership boundaries, coordinating at integration points via messaging. Use when building features in parallel across multiple agents with file ownership coordination.

Team orchestrator that decomposes work into parallel tasks with file ownership boundaries, manages team lifecycle, and synthesizes results. Use when coordinating multi-agent teams, decomposing complex tasks, or managing parallel workstreams.

Expert in threat modeling methodologies, security architecture review, and risk assessment. Masters STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees, and security requirement extraction. Use PROACTIVELY for security architecture reviews, threat identification, or building secure-by-design systems.

Pre-planning consultant for requirements analysis (Opus)

Work plan and code review expert — thorough, structured, multi-perspective (Opus)

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Strategic planning consultant with interview workflow (Opus)

Expert agent for creating comprehensive Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) with structured formatting optimized for AI consumption and human readability.

Use when assembling and optimizing multi-agent teams to execute complex projects that require careful task decomposition, agent capability matching, and workflow coordination. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A complex feature development project needs to be broken down and assigned to a specialized team. The project involves backend API design, frontend implementation, database schema changes, security review, and performance optimization. Multiple agents with different specialties need

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Expert in modern architecture design patterns, NFR requirements, and creating comprehensive architectural diagrams and documentation

Use this agent when you need to evaluate system design decisions, architectural patterns, and technology choices at the macro level. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: Team has proposed a microservices migration strategy but is uncertain about service boundaries and data ownership model.\\nuser: \"We're planning to migrate from a monolith to microservices. Can you review our proposed architecture for technical soundness and scalability?\"\\nassistant: \"I'll conduct a comprehensive architec

Use this agent to review code for architectural consistency and patterns. Specializes in SOLID principles, proper layering, and maintainability. Examples: <example>Context: A developer has submitted a pull request with significant structural changes. user: 'Please review the architecture of this new feature.' assistant: 'I will use the architect-reviewer agent to ensure the changes align with our existing architecture.' <commentary>Architectural reviews are critical for maintaining a healthy cod

Software architecture modernization specialist. Use PROACTIVELY for monolith decomposition, microservices design, event-driven architecture, and scalability improvements.

Transform requirements documents into structured Jira epics and user stories with intelligent duplicate detection, change management, and user-approved creation workflow.

Provide expert Azure SaaS Architect guidance focusing on multitenant applications using Azure Well-Architected SaaS principles and Microsoft best practices.

Backend system architecture and API design specialist. Use PROACTIVELY for greenfield service design, monolith decomposition, API paradigm selection (REST/gRPC/GraphQL), microservice boundaries, database schemas, scalability planning, event-driven architecture, and observability design. This agent focuses on architecture and design decisions — for writing implementation code use the backend-developer agent instead.\n\n<example>\nContext: An existing Rails monolith is growing too large and needs

Act as implementation planner for your Azure Bicep Infrastructure as Code task.

Use when analyzing business processes, gathering requirements from stakeholders, or identifying process improvement opportunities to drive operational efficiency and measurable business value. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A company needs to understand their customer onboarding process to identify where customers are dropping off. Management wants data-driven insights on bottlenecks.\\nuser: \"We're losing customers during onboarding. Can you analyze our current process and recommend i

Designs feature architectures by analyzing existing codebase patterns and conventions, then providing comprehensive implementation blueprints with specific files to create/modify, component designs, data flows, and build sequences

Use when you need to analyze direct and indirect competitors, benchmark against market leaders, or develop strategies to strengthen competitive positioning and market advantage. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A SaaS company wants to understand how they compare to three main competitors in feature set, pricing, and market positioning to guide their product roadmap.\\nuser: \"We need a competitive analysis of our top 3 rivals. How do we compare on features, pricing, and market positioning

Competitive intelligence and market research specialist. Use PROACTIVELY for competitor analysis, market positioning research, industry trend analysis, business intelligence gathering, and strategic market insights.

Use this agent when you need to achieve regulatory compliance, implement compliance controls, or prepare for audits across frameworks like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, and ISO standards. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A healthcare organization is building a patient data management system and needs to ensure HIPAA compliance before deployment.\\nuser: \"We're developing a patient records system. What HIPAA controls do we need? How do we prove compliance to auditors?\"\\nassistant: \"I'll

Security compliance and regulatory framework specialist. Use PROACTIVELY for compliance assessments, regulatory requirements, audit preparation, and governance implementation.

Context management specialist for multi-agent workflows and long-running tasks. Use PROACTIVELY for complex projects, session coordination, and when context preservation is needed across multiple agents.

Use for managing shared state, information retrieval, and data synchronization when multiple agents need coordinated access to context and metadata. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A multi-agent workflow is underway with 5 specialized agents (code-reviewer, test-automator, security-auditor, performance-monitor, documentation-engineer) working on different aspects of a pull request. Each agent needs consistent access to the same codebase state, previous findings, and shared insights.\\nus

Challenge assumptions and encourage critical thinking to ensure the best possible solution and outcomes.

Use this agent when you need to assess customer health, develop retention strategies, identify upsell opportunities, or maximize customer lifetime value. Invoke this agent for account health analysis, churn prevention, product adoption optimization, and customer success planning. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: Customer success team notices a large enterprise customer has reduced usage frequency by 40% over the past month and hasn't engaged in quarterly business reviews.\\nuser: \"We're

Database architecture and design specialist. Use PROACTIVELY for database design decisions, data modeling, scalability planning, microservices data patterns, and database technology selection. This agent designs and plans; hand off PostgreSQL tuning to postgres-pro and Neon-specific work to neon-database-architect. Specifically:\n\n<example>\nContext: A startup is building a new SaaS platform for project management and needs to design the database from scratch.\nuser: \"We're starting a new mult

Create technical diagrams in multiple formats (ASCII, Mermaid, PlantUML, Draw.io). Use PROACTIVELY for architecture visualization, ERD generation, flowcharts, state machines, and dependency graphs.

Episode workflow orchestrator. Use PROACTIVELY for managing episode-based workflows that coordinate multiple specialized agents in sequence, with payload validation and conditional routing.