I rebuilt my Claude Code starter prompt for agent teams. The original positions Claude as a single project lead that both coordinates and implements. The agent team version splits this into three roles with strict boundaries: a Lead (Opus, coordination only), a Builder (Sonnet, owns all code), and a Validator (Sonnet, read-only comparison against requirements).

The same five .md files are still there — CLAUDE.md, PROGRESS.md, DECISIONS.md, TECHNICAL.md, HANDOVER.md — but now the Lead owns them while the other agents read from them. A VALIDATION.md file joins the system for the Validator's findings log.

The prompt includes spawning instructions for each agent, file ownership rules to prevent conflicts, and a model strategy section explaining why Opus coordinates while Sonnet executes. There's a generic version that works for any project, and a CMS migration edition with domain-specific roles and a MIGRATION-MAP.md work queue.

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More context on why I made this change: I was the validator all along.