Team
The autonomous engineering mesh for Claude Code.
What is Team?
Team orchestrates 13 specialized agents — from isolated researchers to adversarial reviewers — that drive a feature through an 8-phase pipeline (QRSPI) and deliver a verified pull request. Agents are decoupled microservices: each consumes a predecessor artifact on disk, does its work, and writes its own artifact. The orchestrator (the main Claude Code session) walks a linear phase table and runs a single human approval gate (design).
The Pipeline
WORKTREE → QUESTION → RESEARCH → DESIGN → STRUCTURE → PLAN → IMPLEMENT → PR
| Phase | What happens |
|---|---|
| Worktree | Orchestrator prepares an isolated git worktree first and authors docs/plans/<id>/ inside it, so your home checkout stays clean for the whole run. |
| Question | Decompose intent into task.md + neutral questions.md. The questioner is the only agent that ever sees your original description. |
| Research (isolated) | Parallel agents (file-finder + researcher) consume only questions.md. They never see the task — structurally preventing opinion-bias. |
| Design (human gate) | The design author runs an interactive interview, then drafts a ~200-line alignment doc. You review here. |
| Structure | Break the design into vertical slices with verification checkpoints. ~2-page doc. Produced autonomously — advances to Plan with no human gate. |
| Plan | Tactical implementation plan derived from the structure. Read by the implementer; not human-gated. |
| Implement | Test-first → slice execution → 5 parallel reviewers + typed retry loop. |
| PR | Update changelog, commit, open pull request. |
Install
Team is a Claude Code plugin. Add it to your Claude Code installation:
claude plugin add /path/to/team
Then run a phase end-to-end:
/team Add rate limiting middleware to all API endpoints
For a focused bug fix that skips the QRSPI ceremony:
/team-fix Users see stale cache after profile update
Read next
- Vision — the loop-driven end state Team builds toward.
- Ethos — the principles that make the autonomous middle trustworthy.
- Architecture — full design, artifact frontmatter, phase-inference rules.
- Skills — all 30 skills, their arguments, consumers, and behaviors.
- GitHub repository — source, agents, skills.