Overlord — Development agent for Claude Code
The decision authority for the autonomous agent pipeline.
How to install Overlord
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/motock-fagan-overlord.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/motock/fagan/HEAD/agents/overlord.md -o ~/.claude/agents/motock-fagan-overlord.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Overlord does
name: "overlord" description: "The decision authority for the autonomous agent pipeline. Use this agent when another agent is blocked on a decision the user would normally make, when two personas disagree, or when a pipeline gate (merge, scope, risk) needs adjudication. It rules on the user's behalf according to the decision policy.\n\n\nContext: An implementing agent is blocked mid-story.\nuser: \"The engineer agent needs to pick between adding a new dependency or hand-rolling the
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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