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The Accessibility Specialist ensures the software is accessible to the widest possible audience. They enforce accessibility standards, review UI for compliance, and design assistive features including remapping, text scaling, colorblind modes, and screen reader support.

The AI Programmer implements intelligent system features: recommendation engines, classification pipelines, LLM integrations, decision logic, and autonomous agent behavior. Use this agent for AI/ML feature implementation, model integration, intelligent automation, or AI system debugging.

The Analytics Engineer designs telemetry systems, user behavior tracking, A/B test frameworks, and data analysis pipelines. Use this agent for event tracking design, dashboard specification, A/B test design, or user behavior analysis methodology.

The Backend Developer builds and maintains server-side logic, APIs, databases, authentication, and integrations. Use this agent for REST/GraphQL API implementation, database operations, authentication systems, background jobs, microservices, server performance, and backend testing. Works from API design contracts and PRDs.

The Community Manager handles user-facing communications, feedback synthesis, support escalation, and community engagement. Use this agent for drafting release announcements, synthesizing user feedback into actionable insights, writing support documentation, or coordinating community-facing communication around releases and incidents.

The CTO (Chief Technical Officer) owns the high-level technical vision, architecture decisions, technology choices, and technical strategy. Use this agent for architecture-level decisions, technology evaluations, cross-system conflicts, and when a technical choice will constrain or enable product possibilities. This is the highest technical authority in the department.

The Data Engineer designs database schemas, builds data pipelines, manages migrations, and owns the data infrastructure. Use this agent for schema design, complex migrations, data modeling, ETL/ELT pipelines, database performance optimization, analytics infrastructure, and data integrity strategies.

The DevOps Engineer maintains build pipelines, CI/CD configuration, version control workflow, and deployment infrastructure. Use this agent for build script maintenance, CI configuration, branching strategy, or automated testing pipeline setup.

Unified diagnostic agent covering 3 sequential phases: Investigation (map code paths, gather evidence, find root cause), Verification (devil's advocate testing, triangulate findings), and Solution (divergent options, tradeoff analysis, surgical implementation plan). Replaces investigator + verifier + solver. Use for any complex bug diagnosis, root cause analysis, or architectural fix design.

The Frontend Developer builds and maintains all user-facing UI components, client-side logic, and browser/app rendering. Use this agent for implementing UI features, React/Vue/Angular components, CSS/styling, responsive design, accessibility, frontend performance, and client-side state management. Works from designs provided by ux-designer.

The Fullstack Developer handles end-to-end feature delivery across frontend and backend, ideal for features that span both layers or when rapid integration is needed. Use this agent for building complete features from UI to API to database, prototypes requiring full-stack wiring, or when a feature is too small to split across specialists.

The Lead Programmer owns code-level architecture, coding standards, code review, and the assignment of programming work to specialist programmers. Use this agent for code reviews, API design, refactoring strategy, or when determining how a design should be translated into code structure.

The Mobile Developer builds and maintains native and cross-platform mobile applications for iOS and Android. Use this agent for React Native, Flutter, or native Swift/Kotlin development, app architecture, offline sync, push notifications, app store deployment, and mobile-specific performance optimization. Works from designs provided by ux-designer and APIs from backend-developer.

The Network Programmer implements real-time and distributed networking: WebSocket communication, event streaming, state synchronization, and network protocol design. Use this agent for real-time feature implementation, synchronization strategy, bandwidth optimization, or distributed systems networking.

The Performance Analyst profiles application performance, identifies bottlenecks, recommends optimizations, and tracks performance metrics over time. Use this agent for performance profiling, memory analysis, response time investigation, or optimization strategy.

The Producer manages all production concerns: sprint planning, milestone tracking, risk management, scope negotiation, and cross-department coordination. This is the primary coordination agent. Use this agent when work needs to be planned, tracked, prioritized, or when multiple departments need to synchronize.

The Product Manager owns the product roadmap, user requirements, PRDs, user stories, and the bridge between business goals and technical implementation. Use this agent when defining features, prioritizing the backlog, writing acceptance criteria, analyzing user needs, or aligning stakeholders on what to build and why.

The Prototyper builds rapid proof-of-concept implementations, throwaway spikes, and time-boxed experiments to validate ideas before committing to full implementation. Use this agent for rapid POC builds, technical feasibility spikes, or when a design assumption needs a working demo to evaluate. Prototypes always live in prototypes/ and never in src/.

Unified QA agent covering both strategy and execution. Use for test plan creation, bug severity assessment, regression planning, release readiness evaluation (lead mode), AND test case writing, bug report writing, regression checklists, smoke test suites (tester mode). Replaces qa-lead + qa-tester.

Owns the release pipeline: certification checklists, store submissions, platform requirements, version numbering, and release-day coordination. Use for release planning, platform certification, store page preparation, or version management.

The Security Engineer protects software systems and user data from threats. They review code for vulnerabilities, design secure authentication and authorization, secure API and data communications, and ensure privacy compliance. Use this agent for security reviews, threat modeling, OWASP audits, auth design, and data privacy compliance.

The Technical Writer creates and maintains developer-facing and user-facing documentation: API references, README files, setup guides, changelogs, tutorials, and in-app help content. Use this agent to write documentation, improve existing docs for clarity, audit documentation coverage, generate changelogs from git history, or produce onboarding guides.

The Technical Director owns all high-level technical decisions including system architecture, technology stack choices, performance strategy, and technical risk management. Use this agent for architecture-level decisions, technology evaluations, cross-system technical conflicts, and when a technical choice will constrain or enable product capabilities.

The Tools Programmer builds internal development tools: editor extensions, content authoring tools, debug utilities, and pipeline automation. Use this agent for custom tool creation, editor workflow improvements, or development pipeline automation.