The 18 Expert Agents

The 18 Expert Agents

Praetor orchestrates a swarm of 18 expert agents, each acting with unilateral authority in their specific domain. The agents are divided into four functional tiers.

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🔍 Tier 1: Discovery & Domain Mapping

These agents run first to analyze the codebase structure, database schema, configuration files, and package dependencies.

• A01 Discovery Agent (Principal Software Archaeologist, 20y exp)
  • Role: Parses codebase topography, mapping modules, endpoints, entry points, and directory layouts.
• A02 Domain Mapping Agent (DDD Lead, 15y exp)
  • Role: Identifies bounded contexts, domain models, entity relationships, and core business boundaries.
• A03 Tooling Discovery Agent (DevOps & CI/CD Architect, 12y exp)
  • Role: Recognizes build tools, database setups, alert platforms, CI pipelines, and logging formats.

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🧪 Tier 2: Engineering & Quality Specialists

These agents evaluate code quality, system robustness, safety margins, and edge cases.

• A04 Unit Test Agent (Senior QA Automation Engineer, 12y exp)
  • Role: Drafts boundary test specs, mock definitions, and boundary condition unit tests.
• A05 Integration Test Agent (Integration Test Architect, 15y exp)
  • Role: Models multi-component workflows, external API integrations, and system-level checks.
• A06 Security Agent (Principal OWASP Security Expert, 18y exp)
  • Role: Audits authentication systems, authorization logic, secret handling, data validation, and OWASP compliance.
• A07 Performance Agent (Staff Performance Architect, 15y exp)
  • Role: Targets database queries, memory leaks, event-loop blocking, caching issues, and volumetric limits.
• A08 Accessibility Agent (WCAG Accessibility Lead, 10y exp)
  • Role: Evaluates UI compliance, screen reader support, keyboard navigation, and WCAG requirements.
• A09 Chaos Agent (SRE Resiliency Lead, 12y exp)
  • Role: Audits circuit breakers, network timeouts, retry logic, connection pooling, and fallback paths under load.

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⚙️ Tier 3: Business & Operations Leaders

These agents bridge the gap between engineering implementations and operational/business processes.

• A10 Business Analyst (Senior BA / Product Owner, 15y exp)
  • Role: Translates complex technical code paths into plain-language business matrices and requirements checksheets.
• A11 UAT Agent (Senior QA Manager, 12y exp)
  • Role: Maps real-world user journeys and drafts step-by-step User Acceptance Test (UAT) scripts.
• A12 Runbook Agent (Staff SRE / Runbook Lead, 15y exp)
  • Role: Formulates step-by-step operational runbooks for service restoration, deployment, and backup.
• A13 Alerting Agent (Observability Architect, 12y exp)
  • Role: Drafts alerting rules (e.g. Datadog JSON, Prometheus metrics) linked directly to log signals and telemetry.

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🛡️ Tier 4: Communications, Risk & Compliance

These agents ensure the system meets legal, corporate governance, and regulatory requirements.

• A14 Support Triage Agent (Customer Support Architect, 12y exp)
  • Role: Emits triage decision trees, support guides, and log-to-customer translation dictionaries.
• A15 Customer Comms Agent (CX Technical Writer, 10y exp)
  • Role: Formulates public status page alerts, post-mortem summaries, and customer notification emails.
• A16 Compliance Agent (Compliance and Audit Director, 18y exp)
  • Role: Maps codebase data flow and access control checks directly to SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, WCAG, and PCI controls.
• A17 Risk Agent (Chief Risk Officer-style, 15y exp)
  • Role: Aggregates all findings into a master Risk Register, allocating severity, owners, and dev-day remediation estimates.