workbench-dev-team

workbench-dev-team

A Claude Code plugin that runs a three-agent development pipeline against a GitHub project board. Items flow from triage → development → review without you touching them. Part of the claude-workbench marketplace.

What it does

You work out of a GitHub project board. New issues land with no acceptance criteria. Well-refined ones sit in Ready. Work-in-progress has open draft PRs. PRs waiting on review pile up.

This plugin runs three agents on a local 20-minute clock to move items through the pipeline for you:

• Miss Wormwood (Haiku) — triage. Reads unrefined items, writes acceptance criteria, scores WSJF, moves them to Backlog for your review.
• Moe (Opus, $5/run cap) — development. Has two modes: Calvinball mode (Dispatch-driven, picks the top Ready/In Progress item, clones the repo, writes code and tests against AC, opens a PR, moves to In Review) and Direct mode (invocable as a sub-agent from Claude Code or Cowork for ad-hoc dev work — no Calvinball calls, just runs the /develop skill in a sub-agent context). Both modes follow the /develop skill for the actual coding.
• Tracer Bullet (Sonnet) — code review. Reviews open PRs, approves or requests changes. Escalates to you after 3 rounds.

A fourth component — Dispatch — is the local scheduled task that polls the board every 20 minutes and fires the right agent for each pending item. Dispatch is the only thing that's scheduled; the three agents run as dispatched subprocesses.

Install

/plugin marketplace add mike-bronner/claude-workbench
/plugin install workbench-dev-team@claude-workbench

That installs the agents, the Dispatch prompt, and the bundled skills (see below). Nothing is scheduled yet.

Bundled skills

The plugin ships two skills:

• develop and git-commit — universal development standards. They register themselves globally via session-warmup.md, which workbench-core picks up at session start and injects into ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. They apply to every Claude Code / Cowork session, not just dev-team agents. Both are also packageable as .skill files for Claude Chat (Mac app) where plugins aren't supported but skills are. Require workbench-core 0.2.0+ for the session-warmup discovery mechanism (declared as a hard dependency).

Plugin configuration lives in a slash command (/workbench-dev-team:setup), not a skill — see the Setup section below.

develop

Universal dev workflow + standards: orient before writing, plan before coding, atomic commits, every change gets a test, no committed secrets, lint before pushing. Triggers whenever code is being implemented, fixed, refactored, or tested — manual or agent-driven.

Includes a decision protocol that requires presenting three options to the human (with reasoning and a recommendation) for any meaningful fork — implementation approach, library choice, scope decisions, naming. The human decides, the agent executes. Trivial choices (mechanical translation, following existing repo conventions, one-line obvious fixes) are exempt.

Used by Moe internally in both operating modes. Also invocable directly in any plugin-aware Claude session.

git-commit

Generates commit messages using Conventional Commits + Gitmoji format. Triggers whenever a commit message is being composed — manual, scripted, or agent-driven (including Moe's PRs).

Format example:

feat: ✨ Add email validation endpoint.

Fixes: #789

Full type and emoji references at skills/git-commit/references/.

Setup

After /plugin install, run this in any Claude Code session:

/workbench-dev-team:setup

It walks you through cadence selection (20 or 30 min), Keychain seeding for any missing credentials, Calvinball MCP registration, log directory creation, and Dispatch scheduled-task registration. Idempotent — re-run any time to refresh the OAuth token, re-register the MCP, or change cadence.

Prerequisites on your machine: gh (authenticated), jq, security (built into macOS).

You'll be prompted in chat for any of these Keychain entries that aren't already present:

Entry	Purpose
calvinball-mcp / client-id	Calvinball OAuth client ID
calvinball-mcp / client-secret	Calvinball OAuth client secret
github-cli / token	GitHub token for dispatched agents (auto-extracted from your existing gh auth login Keychain entry when present)
claude-code / oauth-token	Claude Code OAuth token for scheduled claude -p invocations. Get one with claude setup-token

What /workbench-dev-team:setup does, in order