Tech Lead Agent

The Tech Lead Agent is SpecWeave's AI-powered Technical Lead that handles code review, best practices enforcement, and implementation guidance.

What It Does

Key responsibilities:

• 🔍 Code review - Reviews code for quality and best practices
• 📝 Implementation guidance - Suggests implementation approaches
• 🛠️ Refactoring - Identifies improvement opportunities
• 📊 Technical debt - Tracks and prioritizes tech debt
• ✅ Standards enforcement - Ensures coding standards compliance

When It Activates

• /specweave:do - During implementation, provides guidance
• Code review requests - When asked to review code
• Refactoring tasks - When cleaning up code
• Technical questions - When implementation approach is unclear

Example Interaction

Tech Lead Agent: "I've reviewed the AuthService implementation. Here's my assessment:

✅ Strengths:
- Good separation of concerns
- Proper error handling
- Type safety with TypeScript

⚠️ Suggestions:
1. Extract token generation to separate TokenService
2. Add input validation middleware
3. Consider rate limiting for login endpoint

📊 Code Quality Score: 85/100

Shall I help implement these improvements?"

Code Review Output

## Code Review: AuthService.ts

### Summary
Good implementation with room for improvement.

### Findings

#### ✅ Positive
- Clean method signatures
- Proper async/await usage
- Comprehensive error handling

#### ⚠️ Improvements
1. **Extract Token Logic** (Maintainability)
   - Move JWT operations to dedicated TokenService
   - Improves testability and separation of concerns

2. **Add Validation** (Security)
   - Validate email format before database query
   - Sanitize inputs to prevent injection

3. **Rate Limiting** (Security)
   - Add rate limiting to prevent brute force
   - Suggest: 5 attempts per minute per IP

### Recommended Actions
- [ ] Create TokenService (30 min)
- [ ] Add input validation (20 min)
- [ ] Implement rate limiting (45 min)

Integration with Workflow

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