Reference

This section is generated from the plugin’s own frontmatter and regenerates on every build, so it can never drift from the source. See how the three catalogs cooperate in How a Request Flows: a command routes to an owning skill, which may dispatch specialist agents.

Commands, skills, and agents below are generated from the ca (Claude Code) plugin payload. Codex CLI (ca-codex) uses the same names with $ca-<name> in place of /ca:<name>; Pi (ca-pi) uses /ca-<name>. The Agents catalog below describes Claude Code’s isolated Task-tool dispatch — Codex executes the same reviewer and author roles inline in the current thread instead, until packaged agent dispatch lands for that host. See Compatibility → Host Differences for the full per-surface breakdown across all three hosts.

Commands

Command	Description
add-dep	Vet a new or changed third-party dependency for license, provenance, and supply-chain risk before any install runs.
adr	Author a numbered, dated, user-attributed Architecture Decision Record under .codearbiter/decisions/.
adr-status	Report the health of Architecture Decision Records — aged, unchallenged, supersession candidates, unresolved CONFIRM-NN.
arbiter	Exit maintainer dev mode — restore orchestration, remove the dev marker, log the exit.
audit	Assemble the governance record for a range — commits, overrides, ADRs, sprint auto-decisions, open questions, checkpoint findings — into one dated audit packet.
btw	Lightweight Q&A about the project — answer from context and return, no routing, no state change.
checkpoint	Periodic multi-reviewer sweep of the whole codebase — surfaces a triaged checkpoint report.
chore	Sanctioned lane for non-behavioral work — docs-only edits, dependency bumps, reverts.
commands	Show the codeArbiter command catalog — the public command list and what each routes to.
commit	Run the full commit gate — the only sanctioned path to a git commit.
conflict	Stop everything and surface a rule conflict — persona vs.
context-check	Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs, then per stale doc offer re-scout, re-baseline, or defer.
create-context	Brownfield back-fill — scout an existing codebase and populate .codearbiter/, then lock it initialized.
debug	Investigate-then-decide root-cause analysis for a defect whose cause is unknown.
decompose	Greenfield decomposition interview — a layered interview that populates .codearbiter/ and locks it initialized.
dev	Maintainer override — suspend orchestration to edit codeArbiter itself.
doctor	Verify the active host install, package, command ownership, enforcement, and harmless live-fire probe.
feature	Start a feature: brainstorm a spec, get it approved, then drive it test-first through the pipeline.
fix	Fix a confirmed bug: a failing regression test first, then a minimal fix, then the rest of the tdd gates.
init	Opt this repo into codeArbiter — scaffold the root-level .codearbiter/ state store.
metrics	Read-only 3-metric governance glance — override rate, small-lane rate, sprint low-confidence ratio — each with a trend arrow vs.
new-skill	Author a new codeArbiter skill: prove the gap is real, get the spec approved, then write it.
override	Sanctioned, logged bypass of a gate or hard rule — one audit line, then proceed.
pr	Open a pull request the only sanctioned way — clear every BLOCK-level review finding, then stage the PR.
preview	Zero-onboarding, read-only dry-run of the reviewer fleet against the current uncommitted diff.
prune (preview)	Trim transcript clutter to extend session lifetime — analyze, prune a copy, or toggle the after-each-turn service.
reconcile	SMARTS arbitration — reconcile architectural artifacts against the scaffold and prior decisions; every variance resolved by an explicit, user-attributed choice.
refactor	Restructure code with behavioral parity proven through unmodified pre-existing tests, then refactor.
release	Cut a release the only sanctioned way — SemVer bump from the commit log, a CHANGELOG section, an annotated tag.
review	Review the current diff with the reviewer fleet, funneled to one triaged verdict.
spike	Exploratory spike on a throwaway branch — answer a named question with disposable code.
sprint (preview)	Autonomous sprint — one interactive spec gate, then plan-to-PR execution with every auto-decision SMARTS-scored and logged.
standup	Daily repo hygiene — review the day’s repo state, then perform the cleanups under per-action confirmation.
status	Show the project’s current state at a glance — stage, open tasks, open questions, overrides since the last checkpoint, current branch.
statusline	Wire codeArbiter’s statusline into ~/.claude/settings.json, or remove it.
task	The sanctioned task-board mutator — add a queued task, start one (flips to in-progress and stamps the date, minting a dotted ID on pick-up), or mark an in-progress task done.
threat-model	Opt-in lightweight STRIDE pass for a sensitive feature before implementation.
tribunal	Deep, rarely-convened whole-codebase audit — eleven specialist lenses, a resumable on-disk audit log, findings filed as GitHub issues on approval.
watch	Watch a PR’s CI to completion — diagnose on red, notify and offer the merge on green.

Skills

Skill	Description
brainstorming	The Socratic spec-refinement front of /feature, and the planning front of /sprint.
commit-gate	The only path to a commit.
context-check	Optional manual drift audit — report stale provenance-tracked docs (via _provenancelib drift detection across .codearbiter/.provenance/), then per stale doc offer re-scout / re-baseline / defer.
context-creation	The brownfield back-fill.
crypto-compliance	The banned-primitive gate.
debug	Investigate-then-decide root-cause analysis for a defect whose cause is unknown (distinct from /fix, which assumes a known bug).
decision-lifecycle	Author and track Architecture Decision Records.
decision-variance	Reconcile the project’s architectural artifacts against the scaffold and prior decisions, then present each variance as a SMARTS analysis for the user to decide.
decompose	The greenfield decomposition interview.
dispatching-parallel-agents	The parallel fan-out primitive.
executing-plans	The checkpoint coordinator for /feature.
finishing-a-development-branch	The terminal step of /feature and /sprint.
refactor	The behavior-preserving restructure gate.
release	The single permitted path to a version tag.
secret-handling	The secret-source gate.
security-architecture	Optional, opt-in STRIDE threat pass for a sensitive feature — invoked deliberately via /threat-model, never forced on ordinary changes.
skill-author	The authoring gate for new skills.
subagent-driven-development	The implementation engine.
tdd	The test-first gate.
tribunal	The deep, rarely-convened whole-codebase audit lane.
using-git-worktrees	OPTIONAL per-task isolation for autonomous parallel work.
writing-plans	The spec-to-plan bridge.

Agents

Agent	Model tier	Description
architecture-drift-reviewer	Haiku	Read-only checkpoint reviewer.
auth-crypto-reviewer	inherit	Reviews authentication, cryptography, key handling, and secrets against ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}/.codearbiter/security-controls.md.
backend-author	Sonnet	Use when writing or modifying backend/server-side code.
checkpoint-aggregator	Haiku	Composes the finding-triage report and decision-challenger output into a dated checkpoint document under .codearbiter/checkpoints/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
coverage-auditor	Haiku	Dispatched by the tdd skill (Phase 4) to audit test coverage against TDD obligations.
decision-challenger	inherit	Adversarial red-team reviewer of ADRs.
dependency-reviewer	Sonnet	Dispatched when package.json, lock files, or container base images change.
design-quality-reviewer	Sonnet	Reviews generated, user-facing visual or formatted output (UI, reports, slides, charts, diagrams, CLI output) against the anti-slop-design reference.
finding-triage	Haiku	Post-processes all checkpoint reviewer reports — consolidates findings, classifies each by severity and whether it blocks the current change.
frontend-author	Sonnet	Use when writing or modifying frontend/UI code.
grader	inherit	INTERNAL SMARTS analyst dispatched by the decision-variance skill.
infra-author	Sonnet	Use when writing or modifying IaC, containers, CI/CD manifests, or deployment configuration.
map-deps	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane’s Phase 1, on a large/sprawling repo, to offload dependency/integration-surface mapping out of the orchestrator’s retained context.
map-structure	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane’s Phase 1, on a large/sprawling repo, to offload structural mapping out of the orchestrator’s retained context.
migration-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched when a database migration file is added or modified.
scout	Haiku	INTERNAL evidence-gatherer dispatched by the decision-variance and context-creation skills.
security-reviewer	inherit	Dispatch PROACTIVELY when a change touches authentication, authorization, cryptography, secrets, deployment manifests, network policies, or CI workflows.
tribunal-appsec-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the appsec lens.
tribunal-architecture-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the architecture lens.
tribunal-coverage-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the coverage lens.
tribunal-infra-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the infra lens.
tribunal-migration-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the migration lens.
tribunal-observability-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the observability lens.
tribunal-performance-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the performance lens.
tribunal-reliability-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the reliability lens.
tribunal-secrets-supply-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the secrets-supply lens.
tribunal-test-fidelity-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the test-fidelity lens.
tribunal-typesafety-reviewer	inherit	Dispatched by the tribunal deep-audit lane for the typesafety lens.