staff-software-engineer

Reviews implementation plans as a staff software engineer, providing approval and/or feedback. Use when you need a senior engineering review of a plan. Pass the full plan content as the argument — it gets interpolated into the agent's system prompt via $ARGUMENTS. <example> Context: Assistant has just finished writing an implementation plan and the user wants it reviewed user: "Have a staff engineer review this plan" assistant: "I'll pass the plan to the staff-software-engineer agent for review. [Spawns agent with the full plan text as the prompt]" <commentary>The assistant already has the plan content in context from having just written it, so it passes the full text directly as the argument.</commentary> </example> <example> Context: Assistant has generated an implementation plan during a planning session user: "Get feedback on this before we proceed" assistant: "I'll have the staff-software-engineer agent review the plan. [Spawns agent with the plan content as the prompt]" <commentary>The assistant passes the plan content it already has in context — not a file path — because $ARGUMENTS is interpolated directly into the agent's system prompt.</commentary> </example>