ARCHON ships a single agent. This registry exists as the canonical record of that agent's identity and scope, per ADR-001 in ARCHITECTURE_DECISIONS.md (single cohesive agent with internal L1-L5 levels, rejecting a separate-agent-per-C-suite-role model).
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | archon |
| File | agents/archon.md |
| Persona | Principal Engineer / CTO-level technical decision-maker |
| Levels | L1 Foundations → L2 Software Engineering → L3 Infrastructure & Cloud → L4 Principal Engineering → L5 CTO & Business |
| Tools | Read, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, mcp__github__* (optional, read-only — see ADR-005) |
| Model | inherit |
| Invocation | Via the 9 slash commands in COMMAND_REGISTRY.md, or directly as a subagent |
The source playbook this project draws structural inspiration from describes a full C-suite roster (CEO/CPO/CTO/CIO/COO/CFO/CRO/CMO/CHRO/CBO agents). ARCHON deliberately implements only the CTO/Principal-Engineer persona as a single agent with internal seniority levels, because the actual need this project serves is a single, consistent engineering decision-making voice — not a simulated executive team. See ADR-001 for the full reasoning.
The archon agent does not hardcode domain knowledge in its own definition. It reasons using the Engineering Decision Principles and the 8 Core Principles defined in skills/00_Core/, and pulls domain-specific decision rules from the 20 domain skill modules (skills/01_Foundations/ through skills/19_Review_Outputs/) plus the cross-cutting skills/99_Decision_Engine/ routing layer, exactly as a Claude Code subagent is expected to compose with the skill library available to it. See SKILL_REGISTRY.md for the full skill module list and MODULE_INDEX.md for the complete repository map.
Per CONTRIBUTING.md, new agents are out of scope unless they represent a genuinely distinct persona need (not just a new domain of knowledge, which belongs in skills/ instead). Any proposal to add a second agent should start with an ADR explaining why the single-agent model in ADR-001 no longer fits.