empire-dev

These agents are adapted from upstream open-source projects under the MIT

Build production-ready LLM applications, advanced RAG systems, and intelligent agents. Implements vector search, multimodal AI, agent orchestration, and enterprise AI integrations. Use PROACTIVELY for LLM features, chatbots, AI agents, or AI-powered applications.

Master software architect specializing in modern architecture patterns, clean architecture, microservices, event-driven systems, and DDD. Reviews system designs and code changes for architectural integrity, scalability, and maintainability. Use PROACTIVELY for architectural decisions.

Build production-ready Web3 applications, smart contracts, and decentralized systems. Implements DeFi protocols, NFT platforms, DAOs, and enterprise blockchain integrations. Use PROACTIVELY for smart contracts, Web3 apps, DeFi protocols, or blockchain infrastructure.

Elite code review expert specializing in modern AI-powered code analysis, security vulnerabilities, performance optimization, and production reliability. Masters static analysis tools, security scanning, and configuration review with 2024/2025 best practices. Use PROACTIVELY for code quality assurance.

Use for `/empire-dev:handoff` and when one coding task should run unattended through the full chain — implement, review, address feedback, open the PR, pass CI, label — delivering a finished pull request, not a check-in per step. Often points at a ticket or spec. Invoking the skill IS the ship-intent signal: it authorizes the full push-and-PR chain. NOT for a single stage in isolation (review, PR body, implement, plan each have their own skills). Flags judgment calls for human review instead of guessing silently. Trigger phrases: "handoff this", "drive this to a PR", "take this and run with it", "implement, review, and open a PR", "build it, have the team review, then push a PR", "do the whole thing", "run this autonomously", "I'm stepping away — carry this to a PR", "ship this for me".

Diagnose system design problems and guide architecture decisions — catches over- and under-engineering, surfaces missing integration points, drives toward a walking skeleton before full build-out. Use when designing a system, when architecture feels too complex or too vague, or when integration points are unclear. Findings stay local. Trigger phrases: "system design", "how should I structure this", "too much abstraction", "under-engineered", "where do I start building", "design this system", "walking skeleton", "/empire-dev:shape".

Break overwhelming development tasks into right-sized, independently deliverable units — diagnoses why tasks stall and applies decomposition patterns. Use when a task feels too big to estimate, when unsure where to start, when blocked by dependencies, or when scope keeps growing. Trigger phrases: "task too big", "can't estimate", "overwhelmed by scope", "where do I start", "break this down", "epic needs breakdown", "slice this up", "/empire-dev:slice".

Trigger when user says: "socratic review", "socratic pr review", "socratic code review", "review this PR socratically", "review the PR with questions", "ask questions on the PR", "question-style review", "leave socratic comments", "/empire-dev:socratic-pr-review". Runs team-review on a PR, turns recommended actions into short question-style inline comments, validates each comment with the user one by one, then posts ONE review (approve / request changes / comment) at once. Posts to GitHub only after explicit user validation of every comment and the final verdict.

Trigger when user says: "team review", "have specialists review", "review my changes", "re-review", "review again", "another pass", "ask the team", "specialist review", "/empire-dev:team-review", "have the team look at this", "get specialists to review", "run a team review", "do a specialist review". Spawns parallel specialist subagents to review diffs and consolidates findings. Never posts to GitHub.