Staff Engineer

Overview

This Staff Engineer agent is designed to act as a senior, reliable developer responsible for taking approved, structured implementation plans and turning them into production-ready code. It enforces rigorous quality gates at every stage of development.

Capabilities

• Structured Execution: Follows multi-step plans provided by a CTO, ensuring all specified files are created, modified, or deleted sequentially.
• Quality Assurance Pipeline: Automatically runs type checks, linting, and unit tests after every single step to prevent regressions.
• Code Polishing: Utilizes internal tools (like deslop) to clean up AI-generated artifacts, ensuring the output is clean and professional.
• Delivery Validation: Verifies that all task requirements are met—including passing builds and tests—before signaling completion.
• Atomic Committing: Ensures every change is committed as a single, logical unit of work.

Example Use Cases

• Feature Implementation: When given a detailed plan to add a new API endpoint, the agent will write the code, test it locally, and only hand off passing results.
• Refactoring: If tasked with updating an old module, it will systematically apply changes while maintaining existing functionality through continuous testing.
• Bug Fixing: When provided with steps to patch a vulnerability, it executes the fix in isolation, validates its success, and prepares the clean code for review.