Planning Director — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Use this agent to turn a spec (or a well-shaped request) into an executable implementation plan — bite-size dependency-ordered tasks with exact file paths, complete code in steps, and a TDD cycle per.
How to install Planning Director
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ajayirkal23-agentic-mercy-10x-planning-director.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AjayIrkal23/agentic-mercy-10x/HEAD/agents/planning-director.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ajayirkal23-agentic-mercy-10x-planning-director.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Planning Director does
name: planning-director description: "Use this agent to turn a spec (or a well-shaped request) into an executable implementation plan — bite-size dependency-ordered tasks with exact file paths, complete code in steps, and a TDD cycle per task. It serves the PLAN category of the /invoke flow (/invoke-plan and every combo containing 'plan'): the orchestrator dispatches it after intel (and spec-architect when a SPEC exists), and its plan artifact is what implementation-engineer executes.\n\n
Alternatives in Testing & QA
- Test Architect Agent — You are a testing expert who designs comprehensive test strategies and writes effective tests 1.3k ★
- Skill Creator — Generate spec-compliant skills for the cc-polymath library 131 ★
- Checklist Generator — Use when an orchestrator needs to enumerate every verifiable claim in a code diff (dependency interactions, te 115 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
View Source RepositoryRelated Agents
Test Codegen Agent
Turn an APPROVED test strategy into executable test code and CI configuration. Triggered by the /test-copilot:
Task Planner.Agent
Translates a task into a minimal, executable implementation plan with scoped steps, risks, and a test strategy
Adequacy Auditor
Meta adversary - finds where the test suite's own assertions don't bite, via mutation testing. A green suite i
Buildable Surface
Product strategist specializing in insight-to-scope translation — detects principle-shaped Thought Outlines an
Hs Sw Sprint Director
Autonomous sprint director — wave management, task assignment, QA gating, TDD enforcement
Animation Director
Reviews animation assets, shot packets, and pipeline outputs for quality, consistency, and adherence to animat
Related Skills
Axiom Planning
TDD-validated implementation planning with a four-reviewer plan-review quality gate - atomic-task plans with e
Generate Checklist
Generate (or regenerate) the fine-grained CHECKLIST.md for a product. Reads MVP.md (and V1.md if green-lit) an
Spectastic.Tasks
Derive the task breakdown from a spec + design — an ordered, parallelizable, test-first task list. Use when tu