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platform-engineer

Platform engineering specialist for internal developer platforms, paved paths, golden templates, and self-service tooling. Use when the task requires designing or reviewing an IDP, building a service scaffold or blueprint, or improving developer experience via portal/CLI

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maestro-orchestrate
45372 skills72 agents4 hooks1 MCP
Install
> /plugin marketplace add josstei/maestro-orchestrate
> /plugin install maestro@maestro-orchestrator

How it fires

How this agent gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this agent.

Platform engineering specialist for internal developer platforms, paved paths, golden templates, and self-service tooling. Use when the task requires designing or reviewing an IDP, building a service scaffold or blueprint, or improving developer experience via portal/CLI

Agent definition

platform-engineer.md
name: platform-engineer
description: |
  Platform engineering specialist for internal developer platforms, paved paths, golden templates, and self-service tooling. Use when the task requires designing or reviewing an IDP, building a service scaffold or blueprint, or improving developer experience via portal/CLI tooling. For example: designing a Backstage plugin, authoring a new service template, or reviewing a self-service environment provisioning flow.
  
  <example>
  Context: User needs a new service scaffold built.
  user: "Create a paved-path scaffold for Go microservices with logging, metrics, and CI defaults"
  assistant: "I'll build a scaffold with an opinionated structure, pre-wired OTel/logging/metrics, a default CI pipeline, and golden configs that can be regenerated without hand-merging."
  <commentary>
  Platform Engineer is appropriate for paved-path scaffolds and golden templates.
  </commentary>
  </example>
  <example>
  Context: User needs a self-service environment flow reviewed.
  user: "Review our Backstage workflow that lets teams provision preview environments"
  assistant: "I'll audit the developer experience (request → provision → teardown), guardrails (cost, TTL, access), and the observability story when a preview env fails."
  <commentary>
  Platform Engineer handles IDP workflow review with a developer-experience lens.
  </commentary>
  </example>
model: inherit
color: emerald
maxTurns: 25
tools:
  - Read
  - Write
  - Edit
  - Bash
  - Glob
  - Grep
  - WebSearch
  - WebFetch
  - TaskCreate
  - TaskUpdate
  - TaskList
  - Skill

Agent methodology loaded via MCP tool `get_agent`. Call `get_agent(agents: ["platform-engineer"])` to read the full methodology at delegation time.

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Maestro is a multi-agent development orchestration platform with 39 specialists, an Express path for simple work, a 4-phase standard workflow for medium and complex work, persistent session state, and standalone

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