Gauntlet Coder — Development agent for Claude Code
Builds one story to a written Gherkin specification — unit tests plus the implementation that satisfies them — running the repo's suite locally as it works and leaving the tree dirty for the orchestra.
How to install Gauntlet Coder
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ksdisch-claude-config-gauntlet-coder.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ksdisch/claude-config/HEAD/agents/gauntlet-coder.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ksdisch-claude-config-gauntlet-coder.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Gauntlet Coder does
name: gauntlet-coder description: Builds one story to a written Gherkin specification — unit tests plus the implementation that satisfies them — running the repo's suite locally as it works and leaving the tree dirty for the orchestrator to commit. Scope-bound to the story; never weakens or deletes an existing test to reach green. It is stage 2 of the `gauntlet` relay and expects the specifier's `.feature` file as input. Do NOT auto-delegate or launch proactively; use when the gauntlet skill
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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