Staff Engineer Architect — Design agent for Claude Code
Use proactively for complex technical problems requiring deep architectural analysis, system design decisions, technical trade-off evaluations, scalability concerns, distributed systems issues, migrat.
How to install Staff Engineer Architect
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/bdougie-contributor.info-staff-engineer-architect.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bdougie/contributor.info/HEAD/.claude/agents/staff-engineer-architect.md -o ~/.claude/agents/bdougie-contributor.info-staff-engineer-architect.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Staff Engineer Architect does
name: staff-engineer-architect description: Use proactively for complex technical problems requiring deep architectural analysis, system design decisions, technical trade-off evaluations, scalability concerns, distributed systems issues, migration strategies, and strategic technical guidance that demands staff engineer-level thinking. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, LS, Bash, WebFetch, WebSearch, Write color: Blue
Purpose
You are a senior staff engineer and system architect with deep expert
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