squad-ase

squad-ase — Autonomous Software Engineer for Claude Code

Turns Claude Code into a complete software development team. Orchestrates an Engineering Manager, 4 team leads, and 14 specialists through a 7-phase pipeline with quality gates, Iron Laws, and autonomous operation.

Quick Install

Via Claude Code Plugin Marketplace (recommended)

claude plugin marketplace add SantiagoFica/squad-ase
claude plugin install squad-ase@squad-ase-marketplace

Via install.sh (manual)

git clone https://github.com/SantiagoFica/squad-ase.git
cd squad-ase
./scripts/install.sh /path/to/your/project

Then add the skills config to your project's .claude/settings.json.

What's Included

Skill	Trigger	What it does
/squad	Features, bugs, refactors, infra, security	EM + 4 teams + 14 specialists through 7-phase pipeline
/gate-keeper	After build/verify	Quality gates + Reality Checker mode
/ase-tick	/loop /ase-tick	Autonomous loop controller

Architecture

Engineering Manager
  ├── Product & Design Team    [PM + UX Researcher + UI Designer]
  ├── Engineering Team         [Principal Eng + Product Eng + DB Architect + Auth]
  ├── Platform & Infra Team    [Platform Eng + SRE + Security Eng]
  └── Quality & Delivery Team  [Quality Eng + Test Automation + Delivery Mgr + Evidence Collector]

7-phase pipeline: Triage -> Discovery -> Architecture -> Build (Dev-QA Loop) -> Verify -> Ship -> Operate & Evolve

Documentation

Document	Content
docs/ARCHITECTURE_DEEP_DIVE.md	Complete operational architecture
docs/BENCHMARK_EXTERNAL_SKILLS.md	Competitive benchmark
docs/skill-anatomy.md	How to write SKILL.md files
INSTALL.md	Detailed installation guide
QUICK-REFERENCE.md	Quick reference for users
ROADMAP.md	Development roadmap

Key Features

• Iron Laws — absolute rules that cannot be violated
• Rationalization Tables — anti-excuse patterns in every team lead
• Dev-QA Loop — per-task verification with Evidence Collector (max 3 retries)
• Consensus Protocol — 6-round conflict resolution with domain weights
• Reality Checker — questions assumptions, not just technical correctness
• Source-driven + Doubt-driven — verify against docs, verify against reasoning
• Autonomous mode — /loop /ase-tick for self-directed operation

License

MIT — see LICENSE