departments/Engineering

Engineering / Development

Turn requests into shipped software through the Session Loop: intake, spec, plan, execute, test, ship.

Assistedlivehead · Software Architectescalates to Executive / Chief of Staff

SOPs live

6/7

declared functions with a playbook on disk

Agents

8· 8 active

Skills linked

290

624 enrollments across roster · session packs on each person

Events routed here

Shared in

functions owned elsewhere that this desk may run

Functions this department owns7

Bug triage and fix

Reproduce, locate, fix with a regression test, ship.

Assistedlive

operator: Senior Developer
playbook: playbook-bug-triage.md

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Code review

Review a change for correctness, security and fit before it merges.

Autonomouslive

operator: Code Reviewer
playbook: playbook-pr-orchestration.md

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Deployment / release

Ship to the target named in DEPLOY_MATRIX, verify, log the changelog.

Human gatelive

operator: DevOps Automator
playbook: playbook-deployment-release.md

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prod_deploy_without_gate

Feature delivery (Session Loop)

L1 spec → L2 execute → L3 audit/test → L4 ship, with parallel subagents where the graph allows.

Assistedlive

operator: Senior Developer
playbook: playbook-app-development.md
scripts: scripts/pipeline-session-mirror.sh, scripts/vps-ship-merge.sh

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force_push_main · toplevel_git_commit · prod_deploy_without_gate

Feature request intake

Turn a request in any words into a written feature request: problem, users, acceptance criteria, affected surfaces — then open the work item.

Assistedlive

operator: Product Manager
playbook: playbook-feature-request-intake.md
scripts: scripts/pipeline-chat-admit.sh, scripts/pipeline-plane-sync.py

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Technical debt refactor

Pay down a named debt with a plan and a regression net.

Assistedstub

operator: Senior Developer
playbook: playbook-tech-debt.md

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Test automation

Grow the prove/test surface so the next change is safer than the last.

Autonomouslive

operator: Test Automation Engineer
playbook: playbook-test-automation.md

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Roster8

API Platform

specialist · cursor · default

API platform contracts and reliability.

80 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

Backend Architect

specialist · cursor · default

Backend architecture for portal, spine, and APIs.

80 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

Code Reviewer

specialist · codex · reasoning

Finds the defect before the customer does.

80 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

DevOps Automator

specialist · cursor · reasoning

Ships to the target named in DEPLOY_MATRIX and proves it landed.

80 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

Product Manager

operator · cursor · reasoning

Turns a sentence into a feature request with acceptance criteria a reviewer can check.

80 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

Senior Developer

operator · cursor · reasoning

Executes the plan with atomic commits, tests and evidence.

80 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

Software Architect

head · cursor · reasoning

Owns the shape of the system and signs off the plan before execution starts.

64 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

Test Automation Engineer

specialist · glm · fast

Grows the prove surface so the next change is safer.

80 enrolled4 packs · full 30

Open in Library (session packs) →

persona · agency-agents

Events that land here3

Bug report receivedP1 Critical

Reproduced, fixed with a regression test, and shipped — not just acknowledged.

Feature request receivedP2 High

The sentence becomes a written feature request with acceptance criteria and a Plane work item, then runs the Session Loop end to end with the development agents.

Pull request openedP3 Normal

Every PR gets a real review before a human is asked to look at it.

Never, from this desk

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toplevel_git_commit
prod_deploy_without_gate

Works with

Design Operations Data Platform Agent Ops (ARM itself)

Coverage

6 of 7 declared SOPs have a playbook on disk. The rest are declared so routing never silently drops them — they land, and a human picks them up.