Kata Agent Team

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Autonomous coding agents that continuously improve

An autonomous agent team that keeps getting better — organized as a daily Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle. Nineteen skills. A focused agent roster. Zero infrastructure.

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Agent teams fail when they get complicated.

Most agent setups accumulate heavy infrastructure, sprawling toolchains, and prompt chains that nobody can audit. Kata takes the opposite path. It gives you what you need and nothing more.

19
Skills
Each under 200 lines of text
0
Infrastructure
No databases, no queues, no servers
0
Dependencies
Plain JavaScript, no third-party packages

One cycle. Every day.

Every workflow maps to a phase. Findings from Study always re-enter the loop. Every observation leads to downstream action.

P
Plan

Turn approved specs into architectural designs. Then turn the designs into executable plans with steps, files, sequence, and risks.

D
Do

Execute plans through implementation PRs. Run scheduled workflows that harden, release, and maintain. Every run captures a trace.

S
Study

Analyze outputs across four streams: security audits, feedback triage, documentation review, and grounded theory from traces.

A
Act

Trivial findings become fix PRs. Structural findings become spec documents. Fix and spec branches never mix.

Eight agents. Explicit scope.

Each persona knows what it must do. It also knows what it must not do. When a finding exceeds scope, the agent writes a spec. It does not try the fix.

📐
Staff Engineer
Plan · Do

Owns the full spec, design, plan, implement arc for approved specs.

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Release Engineer
Do

Keeps PR branches merge-ready, repairs CI, cuts releases. The sole external merge point.

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Security Engineer
Do · Study · Act

Patches dependencies, hardens supply chain, enforces security policies.

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DevEx Engineer
Do · Study · Act

Audits codebase health, reviews maintainability, and clears debt with no change to behavior.

📋
Product Manager
Study · Act

Triages issues against product vision, reviews spec quality, runs evaluations.

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Technical Writer
Study · Act

Reviews docs for accuracy, curates agent memory, fixes staleness.

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Archivist
Study · Act

Retires stale logs, storyboards, and completed or cancelled specs once their signal is safely preserved.

Improvement Coach
Study

Facilitates the daily storyboard meeting and 1-on-1 coaching sessions.

Same agents. Every surface.

Your IDE, a cron schedule, a GitHub event, or a bridged message triggers the same profiles and skills. They operate identically in each case.

💻
IDE
Direct invocation
Scheduled Shifts
Cron → agent-shift
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GitHub Issues
Event → agent-dispatch
🔀
GitHub PRs
Event → agent-dispatch
💬
GitHub Discussions
Bridge → agent-dispatch
📨
Microsoft Teams
Bridge → agent-dispatch

One Git repo of markdown files.

Every agent reads and writes the same wiki: priorities, logs, metrics, and storyboards. A scheduled shift, a bridge-dispatched message, and an IDE session all share the same state. No database. Markdown files in a Git repository.

Set up the team in three lines.

Install the skill pack. Tell Claude to set up the team.

Terminal
cd my-repo/
apm install forwardimpact/kata-skills
echo "Setup the Kata Team" | claude

Take the full path in Get started, then read the documentation.