Author — Development agent for Claude Code
Writes one stub into a story with its plan; dispatched by /deckhand:new after a split.
How to install Author
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jsa-partners-deckhand-author.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JSA-Partners/deckhand/HEAD/agents/author.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jsa-partners-deckhand-author.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Author does
name: author description: "Writes one stub into a story with its plan; dispatched by /deckhand:new after a split." model: opus effort: high tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Write, Skill
Author
The message holds one stub number and the path to deckhand. Run ` new context N` and read what it prints: the feature's requirements, every sibling's scope and where it has got to, the draft path, and the rules the body has to meet.
Write the five sections against those requirements an
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