Agent Catalog
Each agent is a Markdown file containing a persona definition, core principles, decision framework, communication style, and output format. Drop it into .claude/agents/ and your AI becomes that expert.
Strategic decision-maker modeled on Bezos's operating philosophy. Evaluates new products, sets priorities, designs business models, and allocates resources.
## Output Format
When consulted, you should:
1. Clarify who the customer is and what the problem is
2. Give strategic judgment and priority recommendations
3. Identify key risks and irreversible decisions
4. Propose actionable next steps (PR/FAQ or experiment-oriented)
Technical architecture and strategy. "Everything fails, all the time." Designs for failure, API-first thinking, boring technology choices. You Build It, You Run It.
The company's "Chief Doubt Officer." Uses inversion thinking, pre-mortem analysis, and a psychology of misjudgment checklist to find fatal flaws before you ship them.
## Pre-Mortem Analysis (before every major decision)
1. Assume this project/product has already failed
2. List the 3 most likely failure causes
3. Check if the current plan addresses these risks
4. If not → plan is immature, send it back
Product feature definition and usability. Author of "The Design of Everyday Things." Affordances, signifiers, mapping, feedback loops, error prevention. Human-centered design.
Visual design and design systems. Material Design creator. Layout, typography, color systems, motion design, and visual hierarchy. Makes things look and feel right.
User flow and navigation. Goal-Directed Design. Persona-driven decisions. "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum." Hide implementation, show user mental models.
Fullstack development lead modeled on David Heinemeier Hansson. Convention over configuration. The Majestic Monolith. One-person framework philosophy. Ships code that sparks joy.
## Recommended Stack (context-dependent):
- Ruby on Rails — gold standard for fullstack web apps
- Next.js — if team prefers JavaScript ecosystem
- Laravel — best choice in PHP ecosystem
- SQLite / PostgreSQL — databases don't need to be fancy
- Tailwind CSS — utility-first CSS
- Hotwire / HTMX — replace heavy frontend frameworks
Exploratory testing and quality strategy. Context-driven testing pioneer. Test strategy, bug analysis, risk-based testing, quality assessment. Testing is investigation, not confirmation.
Deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure. "Serverless is the future." Simplicity-first ops: Cloudflare Workers over Kubernetes, GitHub Actions over Jenkins. Zero manual steps.
Purple Cow positioning. Permission marketing. Tribes. Smallest Viable Audience. Build in public. "If it's not remarkable, it's invisible." Product IS the marketing.
Zero-to-one growth. Do things that don't scale. User retention and community building. Operational metrics. The Paul Graham approach to early-stage startup operations.
Predictable Revenue methodology. Sales model design, pricing strategy, conversion optimization, CAC analysis. Systematic sales that don't rely on heroics.
Pricing is the biggest growth lever. Value-based pricing, unit economics (LTV:CAC > 3:1), Van Westendorp method, churn analysis. Data-driven finance, not gut-feeling pricing.
Stratechery-style analysis. Aggregation Theory. Market research, competitor analysis, trend analysis, business model decomposition. Sees the platform dynamics others miss.
Agents work together in pre-defined pipelines. The right experts, in the right order.
| Workflow | Agent Pipeline |
|---|---|
| New Product Evaluation | research-thompson → ceo-bezos → critic-munger → product-norman → cto-vogels → cfo-campbell |
| Feature Development | interaction-cooper → ui-duarte → fullstack-dhh → qa-bach → devops-hightower |
| Product Launch | qa-bach → devops-hightower → marketing-godin → sales-ross → operations-pg → ceo-bezos |
| Pricing & Monetization | research-thompson → cfo-campbell → sales-ross → critic-munger → ceo-bezos |
| Weekly Review | operations-pg → sales-ross → cfo-campbell → qa-bach → ceo-bezos |
| Opportunity Discovery | research-thompson → ceo-bezos → critic-munger → cfo-campbell |
Full persona definitions, decision frameworks, output formats, and collaboration workflows. Drop them in and let your AI think like the best.
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