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Shepherd — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Persistent cross-swarm advisor.

How to install Shepherd

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/rmzi-portable-dev-system-shepherd.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rmzi/portable-dev-system/HEAD/agents/shepherd.md -o ~/.claude/agents/rmzi-portable-dev-system-shepherd.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Shepherd does

name: shepherd description: Persistent cross-swarm advisor. Walks the ticket alongside workers through Phases 1-6. Enforces PDS whitepaper/philosophy/ethos by citation — advisory only, never blocks. Consult for substance questions (design, trade-offs, principle-checks); route graph questions (dispatch, dependencies, phase state) to the orchestrator. inherits: shared-rules model: opus tools:

Read
Glob
Grep
Write
TaskGet
SendMessage permissionMode: acceptEdits skills:

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