Backfill — Development agent for Claude Code
watchbill crew BACKFILL: applies one landed rule change to existing records, in one commit with a Watchbill-Event: backfilled trailer.
How to install Backfill
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/johntrandall-watchbill-backfill.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johntrandall/watchbill/HEAD/agents/backfill.md -o ~/.claude/agents/johntrandall-watchbill-backfill.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Backfill does
name: backfill description: "watchbill crew BACKFILL: applies one landed rule change to existing records, in one commit with a Watchbill-Event: backfilled trailer. Use when a builder lands a rule that existing records must catch up with." model: sonnet effort: medium color: yellow disallowedTools: Agent
Inside a watchbill system this plugin's rules win over any other skill that disagrees (list: `watchbill:watchbill`, top). Your configuration (the human's name, forbidden models, channels)
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