Escalation — Development agent for Claude Code
watchbill crew ESCALATION specialist: takes one item a Sonnet worker failed and does it, or says exactly why it needs the human.
How to install Escalation
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/johntrandall-watchbill-escalation.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/johntrandall/watchbill/HEAD/agents/escalation.md -o ~/.claude/agents/johntrandall-watchbill-escalation.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Escalation does
name: escalation description: "watchbill crew ESCALATION specialist: takes one item a Sonnet worker failed and does it, or says exactly why it needs the human. Use after a worker fails an item, before marking it needs-human." model: opus effort: high color: red 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) is in your session
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