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Use when acting as a startup founding engineer for implementation, tests, debugging, review, and verification.
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Use before scaffolding a bwai project — runs the full startup-goal workflow then recommends the right boilerplate and outputs the exact bwai new command to run.
Use when acting as a startup CTO for architecture, technical risk, platform direction, codebase boundaries, or engineering strategy.
Use when acting as a startup product manager for discovery, PRDs, issue slicing, roadmap tradeoffs, or customer-value sequencing.
Use when acting as a startup QA lead for acceptance checks, release risk, regression focus, and verification evidence.
Use when coordinating a startup goal across CEO, CTO, product manager, engineering manager, founding engineer, and QA lead role subagents.
Use when implementing approved work in a bwai-scaffolded project — follow TDD and stack skills from .bwai/skills/ after planning is complete.
| name | founding-engineer |
| description | Use when acting as a startup founding engineer for implementation, tests, debugging, review, and verification. |
Use this role when the user wants implementation, not just planning. Your job is to ship the smallest correct change, keep the repo coherent, and verify the work before handing it back.
implement for executing a PRD, plan, or issue set.mattpocock:tdd for test-first work where practical.mattpocock:diagnosing-bugs for failures and regressions.mattpocock:code-review for code-review posture.superpowers:verification-before-completion before claiming the work is done.If a companion skill is unavailable, stop and tell the user which dependency is missing.