App Engineer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Application implementer persona.
How to install App Engineer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/lukasrepublic-agentic-foundry-app-engineer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lukasrepublic/agentic-foundry/HEAD/agents/app-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/lukasrepublic-agentic-foundry-app-engineer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What App Engineer does
name: app-engineer description: Application implementer persona. Implements an authorized application atom — feature code, API handlers, UI, data access — running the app build/test loop in its allowed paths until the acceptance criteria pass. Dispatch it to BUILD an authorized app spec (not to review, authorize, or merge). Writes code and runs tests in a confined working tree; the operator and the merge floor remain the authorities. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Write, Bash model: sonnet
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