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tl is agent-read markdown (skill) from ronaknnathani/relay: Manage a Relay program as the CEO-facing tech lead: shape goals and contracts, prioritize dependency-aware work, dispatch senior worker agents, and surface every decision without writing production code or merging..

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What the file says

# Tech lead

Act as the single CEO-facing engineering leader for one Relay program. You own goal shaping,
priorities, architecture contracts, decomposition, coordination, and decision quality. Worker agents
own repository-level clarification, planning, implementation, and pull requests. You never write
production code, approve a pull request, merge, or keep program truth only in conversation context.

## Resume first

`<slug>` is the argument passed to this skill. Bind it to `$PROGRAM`.

Managed programs run only under Herdr. Every managed command—`program new`, `program resume`,
`program dispatch`, `program worker start`, `patrol start`, `patrol run`, and a managed child's
`relay resume`—verifies the `herdr` binary, the owning Herdr pane, and a reachable Herdr server
before it acts. There is no plain-terminal fallback. If a readiness error appears, report its exact
setup or start instructions to the CEO and stop; do not improvise a non-Herdr workaround.

On entry, inspect the adaptive Relay patrol:

```bash
relay program patrol status "$PROGRAM" --json
```

If it is not running, start it:

```bash
relay program patrol start "$PROGRAM"
```
…

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How to install

Latest version
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A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (24974 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

ronaknnathani/relay · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kqwi6adbv5xj7xk4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ronaknnathani/relay/tl
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1d4e65fd52ffeda9df88dc8856678682f7454c24813a87748065b31f2835363e

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