Istari Work — Code Quality skill for Claude Code
Autonomous software development agent that executes beads with TDD, code review, and multi-agent coordination.
How to install Istari Work
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/contrast-security-oss-istari-istari-work/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/contrast-security-oss-istari-istari-work && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Contrast-Security-OSS/istari/HEAD/commands/istari-work.md -o ~/.claude/skills/contrast-security-oss-istari-istari-work/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Istari Work does
description: Autonomous software development agent that executes beads with TDD, code review, and multi-agent coordination disable-model-invocation: true user-invocable: true
Work Command
When the user types the `/istari-work` command, activate autonomous development mode and execute beads with full quality gates.
Overview
This command transforms Claude into a self-directed software development agent that:
- Coordinates with other agents via mcp_agent_mail
- Works on beads in pr
Alternatives in Code Quality
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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