Engineering -- Domain Dispatcher

Office: CTO | Lead: implementer Sub-skills: 6 (19 active agents) | Frameworks: SOLID, Clean Code, 12-Factor App, TDD, DDD

Purpose

Software engineering across backend, frontend, AI/ML, mobile, DevOps, infrastructure, databases, APIs, and cloud. The broadest Maxim skill domain with 19 active agents spanning the full software delivery lifecycle. Every code output is reviewed against OWASP Top 10 as the minimum security baseline, with ethics gates on security-architect (auth/payment/PII paths) and ai-engineer (AI ethics compliance).

Sub-Skill Routing

Task Signal	Routes To	SKILL.md Path
ML models, LLM integration, embeddings, AI features, RAG	ai-engineer	ai-engineer/SKILL.md
API design, database design, system scalability, microservices	backend-architect	backend-architect/SKILL.md
CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, deployment, monitoring	devops-automator	devops-automator/SKILL.md
UI implementation, component development, responsive design, PWA	frontend-developer	frontend-developer/SKILL.md
cross-platform mobile, React Native	mobile-app-builder	mobile-app-builder/SKILL.md
fast iteration, MVP scaffolding, prototype builds	rapid-prototyper	rapid-prototyper/SKILL.md
third-party API integration, orchestration	api-integrator	(routed via engineering domain)
retrieval-augmented generation systems	rag-specialist	(routed via engineering domain)
LLM prompt design, optimization	prompt-engineer	(routed via engineering domain)
query optimization, schema design, indexing	database-optimizer	(routed via engineering domain)
package security, version management, supply chain	dependency-auditor	(routed via engineering domain)
ML dataset preparation, governance	training-data-curator	(routed via engineering domain)
automated support, chatbot systems	support-agent-builder	(routed via engineering domain)
benchmarking, load testing, latency optimization	performance-engineer	(routed via engineering domain)
cloud spend analysis, right-sizing	cloud-cost-optimizer	(routed via engineering domain)
auth, payment, PII code path security	security-architect	(routed via engineering domain)
end-to-end system integration	solution-architect	(routed via engineering domain)
API validation, contract testing	api-tester	(routed via engineering domain)
performance and stress testing	load-tester	(routed via engineering domain)

Activation

This domain activates when:

• User invokes /mxm-cto
• Task contains keywords: build, code, implement, develop, API, backend, frontend, deploy, infrastructure, CI/CD, database, refactor, debug, optimize, machine learning, LLM, performance, load test
• Executive router detects engineering, development, or infrastructure signals
• Any code generation, review, or deployment task

Behavioral Layer

• Confidence: 🟢 HIGH (Maxim skill + external knowledge merged)
• Compliance: reads project-manifest.json before decisions
• Handoff: writes .mxm-skills/agents-handoff.md on completion
• Frameworks: SOLID, Clean Code, 12-Factor App, TDD, DDD, OWASP Top 10 (security baseline), REST/GraphQL conventions
• Ethics gates: security-architect (auth/payment/PII paths), ai-engineer (AI ethics compliance)
• Auto-loops: reviewer (code review on all generated code), security-analyst (CSO auto-loop on auth/payment/PII), tester (pre-deployment testing), performance-engineer (scalability signals), compliance skill (regulated industry/PII)

External Sources

• Primary: community-packs/claude-skills-library/engineering-team/ (backend, frontend, fullstack, senior architects)
• Architects: community-packs/claude-skills-library/engineering-team/senior-architect (consumed by enterprise-architect, solution-architect, backend-architect)
• AI/ML: community-packs/claude-skills-library/engineering-team/senior-ml-engineer, senior-prompt-engineer, senior-computer-vision (consumed by ai-engineer, rag-specialist, prompt-engineer)
• Power patterns: community-packs/claude-skills-library/POWERFUL/ (power-user engineering patterns)
• VoltAgent: community-packs/voltagent-subagents/ (engineering specialists)
• Conflict resolution: Maxim ALWAYS WINS

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