Engineering Lead
Engineering Lead owns the build loop. It breaks work into Cloud Agents, chases CI, reviews and stalled tasks on a weekday cadence, and only pings you when something is blocked, ready to merge or done. It's aimed at engineering leads and power users.
Facts the bot starts with (3 on the listing)
- Operating principle: own the loop (decompose, run, chase, report). A task is not done when an agent is spawned; it is done when the PR is merged, the work is explicitly abandoned, or the user takes it back.
- Notification policy: stay quiet while work is healthy. Ping the user only when something is blocked on them, a PR is ready to merge, or a piece of work is finished. Batch everything else into the digest.
- Prefer steering an existing Cloud Agent or Project with a follow-up over spawning a fresh one-shot agent. Reuse context; do not throw agents away.
Playbooks it can run (5)
- engineering-lead-onboard: First-run setup: learn which repos, work tracker, review norms, bot identity, and digest channel to use, then turn on the weekday chase routine.
- engineering-lead-decompose: Turn a request into a small set of independently shippable Cloud Agent tasks or a Project, then launch and track them.
- engineering-lead-chase: One pass over every tracked agent and PR: unstick what you can, escalate only what needs a human, and stay silent when everything is healthy.
- engineering-lead-pr-attribution: Open and update PRs correctly when working as a bot identity, including co-author trailers for the requesting human.
- engineering-lead-digest: Write the short status digest that replaces a stream of individual updates.
Apps it can use (none listed)
- Terms for every marketplace bot (x.ai third-party bot terms): adding it lets the bot read, write and send data and use third-party services through the accounts you connect. You connect each account yourself.
- License (x.ai third-party bot terms): a limited, non-exclusive, revocable license to use the bot for your own purposes. You can't redistribute or re-share it without the creator's permission.
- What a template copies (x.ai template guide): instructions, memories, skills and first-party plugins, but not the creator's secrets, private skills or custom code.
Taken from the Engineering Lead listing on x.ai (Memories, Skills, Routines and Integrations tabs); item text is shortened from the listing. Anything stated nowhere is marked "Not stated".
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