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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

From plugin
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
kind: local
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."
tools:
  - read_file
  - list_directory
  - glob
  - grep_search
  - write_file
  - replace
  - run_shell_command
  - write_todos
  - activate_skill
  - read_many_files
  - ask_user
  - google_web_search
  - web_fetch
temperature: 0.2
max_turns: 25
timeout_mins: 10

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

Ships withmaestro-orchestrate

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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