Planning & Project Management for Claude Code

Use this agent when designing enterprise Java architectures, migrating Spring Boot applications, or establishing microservices patterns for scalable cloud-native systems. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A team needs to refactor a monolithic Spring application into microservices with proper service boundaries and inter-service communication.\\nuser: \"We need to design a microservices architecture for our legacy Spring Boot monolith with 15 services. Current bottlenecks are the shared dat

Use this agent when modernizing legacy systems that need incremental migration strategies, technical debt reduction, and risk mitigation while maintaining business continuity. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A development team has a 15-year-old monolithic system with critical business dependencies and no test coverage that needs gradual modernization.\\nuser: \"Our legacy system is critical for revenue but it's becoming impossible to maintain. Tech stack is ancient, test coverage near ze

Use when designing LLM systems for production, implementing fine-tuning or RAG architectures, optimizing inference serving infrastructure, or managing multi-model deployments. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A startup needs to deploy a custom LLM application with sub-200ms latency, fine-tuned on domain-specific data\\nuser: \"Design a production LLM architecture that supports our use case with sub-200ms P95 latency, includes fine-tuning capability, and optimizes for cost\"\\nassistant: \

Use this agent when you need to analyze markets, understand consumer behavior, assess competitive landscapes, and size opportunities to inform business strategy and market entry decisions. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A startup is planning to enter a new industry segment and needs comprehensive market sizing and opportunity analysis.\\nuser: \"We're considering entering the smart home healthcare market. Can you analyze market size, growth trends, and key competitors?\"\\nassistant: \"

Help mentor the engineer by providing guidance and support.

Meta agentic project creation assistant to help users create and manage project workflows effectively.

Use when designing distributed system architecture, decomposing monolithic applications into independent microservices, or establishing communication patterns between services at scale. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A company has a monolithic e-commerce application becoming difficult to scale and deploy. Different teams need to own separate business domains independently.\\nuser: \"Help us decompose our monolith into microservices. We have user management, product catalog, orders, and

Microsoft Learn Contributor chatmode for editing and writing Microsoft Learn documentation following Microsoft Writing Style Guide and authoring best practices.

Human-in-the-loop modernization assistant for analyzing, documenting, and planning complete project modernization with architectural recommendations.

Use when coordinating multiple concurrent agents that need to communicate, share state, synchronize work, and handle distributed failures across a system. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A data pipeline has 8 specialized agents running in parallel—data-ingestion, validation, transformation, enrichment, quality-check, storage, monitoring, and error-handling agents. They need to coordinate state changes, pass data between stages, and respond to failures anywhere in the pipeline.\\nuser: \"

Master of Next.js best practices, App Router, Server Components, and performance optimization. Use PROACTIVELY for Next.js architecture decisions, migration strategies, and framework optimization.

Strategic planning and architecture assistant focused on thoughtful analysis before implementation. Helps developers understand codebases, clarify requirements, and develop comprehensive implementation strategies.

Generate an implementation plan for new features or refactoring existing code.

Generate a comprehensive Product Requirements Document (PRD) in Markdown, detailing user stories, acceptance criteria, technical considerations, and metrics. Optionally create GitHub issues upon user confirmation.

Use this agent when you need to make product strategy decisions, prioritize features, or define roadmap plans based on user needs and business goals. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: User is deciding whether to build feature A (high user demand, low revenue impact) or feature B (medium demand, high revenue impact).\\nuser: \"We have two features competing for Q2. How should we prioritize? Feature A is requested by many users but won't directly drive revenue. Feature B is less requested bu

Product strategy and roadmap planning specialist. Use PROACTIVELY for product positioning, market analysis, feature prioritization, go-to-market strategy, and competitive intelligence.

Use this agent when you need to establish project plans, track execution progress, manage risks, control budget/schedule, and coordinate stakeholders across complex initiatives. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A software team is starting a major product release with multiple dependencies and tight deadlines. The stakeholders need a comprehensive project plan with timeline, resource allocation, and risk mitigation strategies.\\nuser: \"We're launching a new payment processing platform in

Project workflow orchestrator. Use PROACTIVELY for managing complex multi-step workflows that coordinate multiple specialized agents in sequence with intelligent routing and payload validation.

Use this agent when you need to analyze research queries for clarity and determine if user clarification is needed before proceeding with research. This agent should be invoked at the beginning of research workflows to ensure queries are specific and actionable. Examples: <example>Context: The user has created a query-clarifier agent to analyze research queries for clarity. user: "Tell me about AI" assistant: "I'll use the query-clarifier agent to analyze this query for clarity and determine if

Refine the requirement or issue with Acceptance Criteria, Technical Considerations, Edge Cases, and NFRs

Use this agent when you need to transform a user's research query into a structured, actionable research brief that will guide subsequent research activities. This agent takes clarified queries and converts them into comprehensive research plans with specific questions, keywords, source preferences, and success criteria. <example>Context: The user has asked a research question that needs to be structured into a formal research brief.\nuser: "I want to understand the impact of AI on healthcare di

Use this agent when you need to strategically plan and coordinate complex research tasks across multiple specialist researchers. This agent analyzes research requirements, allocates tasks to appropriate specialists, and defines iteration strategies for comprehensive coverage. <example>Context: The user has asked for a comprehensive analysis of quantum computing applications in healthcare. user: "I need a thorough research report on how quantum computing is being applied in healthcare, including

Use this agent when you need to coordinate a comprehensive research project that requires multiple specialized agents working in sequence. This agent manages the entire research workflow from initial query clarification through final report generation. <example>Context: User wants to conduct thorough research on a complex topic. user: "I need to research the impact of quantum computing on cryptography" assistant: "I'll use the research-orchestrator agent to coordinate a comprehensive research pr

Use this agent when you need to identify, quantify, and mitigate enterprise-level risks across financial, operational, regulatory, and strategic domains. Invoke this agent when you need to assess risk exposure, design control frameworks, validate risk models, or ensure regulatory compliance. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A financial services company needs to assess their market and credit risk exposure across their trading portfolio.\\nuser: \"We need a comprehensive risk assessment fo

Use this agent when you need to conduct technical pre-sales activities including solution architecture, proof-of-concept development, and technical demonstrations for complex sales deals. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A prospect with complex technical requirements needs a custom solution designed and demonstrated before committing to evaluation.\\nuser: \"We have a potential customer with high technical requirements: 10k+ transaction throughput, sub-100ms latency, and complex integrati

Reviews synthesized task lists for completeness, consistency, and quality

Synthesizes analysis results from multiple agents into a unified feature list and task breakdown

Use when teams need facilitation, process optimization, velocity improvement, or agile ceremony management—especially for sprint planning, retrospectives, impediment removal, and scaling agile practices across multiple teams. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A team is struggling with sprint planning, taking 4+ hours with unclear goals and inconsistent velocity estimates\\nuser: \"Our 8-person team wastes too much time in sprint planning. Stories are poorly sized, we never agree on the goa

Specification writer for Spec-Driven Development SDD — creates executable specifications that serve as unambiguous contracts for both human developers and AI agents.

Product management guidance for creating GitHub issues, aligning business value with user needs, and making data-driven product decisions

Brainstorm and develop new application ideas through fun, interactive questioning until ready for specification creation.

Use this agent for smart contract architecture and design-pattern advisory work — choosing proxy/upgrade patterns, designing storage layouts, defining module boundaries, and selecting token/protocol standards — rather than day-to-day implementation or security auditing. Examples: <example>Context: User needs to build a new DeFi protocol user: 'I need to create a secure lending protocol with upgradeable contracts' assistant: 'I'll use the smart-contract-specialist agent to design the contract arc

Generate or update specification documents for new or existing functionality.

Use this agent when you need to break down a complex, multi-step goal into an actionable work breakdown structure with dependencies, parallelism opportunities, effort estimates, and a clear handoff plan to specialist agents. Specifically:\n\n<example>\nContext: A team wants to migrate a monolithic Rails app to a microservices architecture but the scope feels overwhelming and they don't know where to start.\nuser: \"We need to migrate our Rails monolith to microservices. It has 12 bounded context

Use when distributing tasks across multiple agents or workers, managing queues, and balancing workloads to maximize throughput while respecting priorities and deadlines. Specifically:\\n\\n<example>\\nContext: A code review system needs to distribute 500 pull requests across 8 specialist agents (code-reviewer, security-auditor, performance-engineer, accessibility-tester, documentation-engineer, test-automator, and 2 general-purpose reviewers). Each agent has different expertise areas, varying ca

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Elite technical content editor and curriculum architect for evaluating technical training materials, documentation, and educational content. Reviews for technical accuracy, pedagogical excellence, content flow, code validation, and ensures A-grade quality standards.