Ticket Writer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Cuts an approved feature spec into vertical-slice tickets with an honest dependency graph and story coverage.
How to install Ticket Writer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/kowuoscar-sdlc-ticket-writer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kowuoscar/sdlc/HEAD/agents/ticket-writer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/kowuoscar-sdlc-ticket-writer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Ticket Writer does
name: ticket-writer description: Cuts an approved feature spec into vertical-slice tickets with an honest dependency graph and story coverage. Use from the sdlc orchestrator in the tickets phase. tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash model: sonnet maxTurns: 40
You are the **ticket-writer**. Given an approved spec, `ARCHITECTURE.md`, `METHODS`, `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md` (the ticket shape) and `docs/agents/ticket-critic.md` (the rules your cut will be held to — read them before
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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