Multi-agent orchestration · Nº 01
Eleven agents. Nine phases. One PR worth shipping.
dev-squad orchestrates eleven specialist agents inside Claude Code — coordinator, architect, designer, backend, frontend, reviewer, qa-engineer, auditor, devops, git-ops, writer — through a hard-gated PDCA workflow that refuses AI-slop UI and 500-leak APIs by default.
/dev-squad build
one command, nine phases
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I. About / Manifesto · dev-squad / Volume 04
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We treat your codebase as a craft, not a content farm.
The most capable coding agents already live on your laptop. dev-squad orchestrates eleven of them through a hard-gated PDCA workflow that runs inside Claude Code, deploys via your existing CI, and stays bring-your-own-model at every layer. /dev-squad build takes you from idea to PR in nine phases.
Plan · Do · Check · Act · Repeat
Squad practice · Est. MMXXVI
From request to PR, we ship the full stack of intentional decisions. Studies in coordination · review · runtime · stability. dev-squad, MMXXVI
II. Capabilities · Agents · Phases · Gates · 4 pillars / 1 loop
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Eleven agents, nine phases, four gates, one shipping loop.
We blend opus-grade planning with sonnet specialists to ship interfaces, schemas, and pull requests that hold up to threat models, runtime QA, and stability hammers.
Agents
Eleven specialist roles
Coordinator (opus) leads architect, designer, backend, frontend, reviewer, qa-engineer, auditor, devops, git-ops, and writer through hierarchical orchestration with direct P0/P1 messaging.
Phases
Nine PDCA phases
Ultraplan → Discover → Design → Scaffold → Design Gate → Implement → Review → Ship → Retrospective. Each gated, each verifiable, each producing an artifact.
Gates
Hard quality gates
Phase 3.5 anti-AI-slop design gate. Phase 5.5 runtime functional verification. Phase 5.6 stability and 5.7 code quality. Reviewer + QA + auditor hold veto power on P0-P1.
BYO model
Bring your own model
Runs on Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5 — or whatever Claude Code routes to. Model choice per agent, sized to task complexity, not one-size-fits-all.
III. Workflows / Dispatch Catalog · 05 ongoing
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A living archive of dispatchable workflows — built from how real teams ship.
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Composable slash commands triggered solo or chained under /dev-squad build.
Zero-to-Ship Build
/dev-squad build · nine PDCA phases from idea to deploy. Architect → Designer → Frontend + Backend → Reviewer → QA → Auditor → DevOps → Git-Ops. One human checkpoint, then autonomy.
Anti-AI-Slop Design Gate
Phase 3.5 produces four blocking artifacts before frontend codes a line of UI: tokens, visual spec, component inventory, responsive spec. Designer veto on emoji-as-icon and default shadcn slate.
Runtime Visual Gate
qa-engineer drives the golden path via playwright, audits every interactive element, smokes every endpoint, captures console plus network. Detects what static review and unit tests miss.
Stability Hammer
auditor scans config drift, hammers endpoints for 500 leaks, detects connection leaks, validates migration safety. Multi-language code quality via eslint, gocyclo, ruff, jscpd, ts-prune.
Safe Migrations
/dev-squad migrate · auditor flags NOT NULL on large tables, missing CONCURRENTLY on indexes, ACCESS EXCLUSIVE locks, and lock-duration estimates. Pre-flight every schema change.
IV. Method / PDCA Loop · 04 stages, iterative
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From request to PR, in four moves.
Plan · Do · Check · Act — every stage produces an artifact, every artifact is verifiable.
Plan
Coordinator runs ULTRAPLAN — deep thinking on scope, entities, tech stack, risks. Architect produces a PRD with C4 diagrams and ADRs. One human checkpoint, then autonomy.
Do
Architect locks contracts. Designer extracts real tokens from reference sites. Frontend and backend ship in parallel via worktrees with TDD. Shared types live in packages/shared-types.
Check
Reviewer (static + security), qa-engineer (runtime + Visual Gate), and auditor (stability + code quality) run in parallel. Reviewer synthesizes a single Metrics Report. P0-P1 must clear.
Act
DevOps deploys to staging with health checks, monitoring, and rollback. Git-Ops opens a PR with full summary. Reviewer signs off. Retrospective writes wins to the playbook and lessons to memory.
Phases inform everything. Gates make it stick.
github.com/sadewadee/dev-squad-plugin · Apache-2.0V. Selected Work · 2026 Catalog · Edited by dev-squad
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Pillars that turn briefs into PRs that survive review.
Phase 3.5 Design Gate
Designer produces four blocking artifacts before frontend codes a line of UI. Tokens extracted from real references via WebSearch, grep-github, and playwright. Veto on emoji-as-icon, default shadcn slate, missing responsive.
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Phase 5 Triangulated Review
Reviewer (static + security), qa-engineer (runtime + Visual Gate), and auditor (stability + quality metrics) dispatched in parallel via diff-scope heuristic. Confidence-scored findings. P0-P1 must clear before merge.
2026VI. Collaborators / Lineage · Standing on shoulders
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Most agent frameworks ship a single agent that hopes for the best. dev-squad ships eleven that argue with each other until the code is right. S.K. — Staff Engineer · Lineage of opinionated tooling
Standing on the shoulders of teams shipping opinionated dev tooling.
- Claude Code Harness
- Aider Pair coding
- Cline Orchestration
- Codex CLI Agentic
- Continue Patterns
VII. Contact / Spawn · One command to ship
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Spawn the squad. Ship the build.
Install the plugin, run /dev-squad build, and watch eleven agents take it from ULTRAPLAN to SHIP — gated, verified, anti-slop by default.