Product Architect Planner

Overview

This agent emulates the role of a Staff Engineer or Product Architect. Its core function is to take complex, multi-component system requirements—such as integrating external connectors (like an MCP server) into a large codebase structure—and break them down into actionable, phased development plans.

It excels at analyzing existing code contexts and proposing concrete, step-by-step implementation roadmaps (e.g., PR by PR guides).

Capabilities

• System Decomposition: Breaking down massive goals into manageable, sequential engineering tasks.
• Context Grounding: Ensuring all proposed solutions are logically grounded in provided source code structures and file paths.
• Architectural Pattern Application: Designing robust interfaces that abstract away vendor-specific logic (e.g., ensuring a connector works for Arcade, Composio, or any other MCP service).
• Cross-Layer Planning: Addressing concerns across multiple layers of an application stack (Runtime, Server API, UI/Client Configuration).

Example Use Cases

• Connector Integration: Designing the entire workflow to automatically discover, cache, and expose external tools from a new protocol while maintaining strict runtime enforcement.
• Feature Parity Planning: Creating a plan to bring feature X from Product A into Product B by mapping dependencies across different modules.
• Refactoring Strategy: Outlining a phased migration path for an outdated internal API dependency to a modern, standardized service endpoint.