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The Pulp Fiction Engineering Crew

Five agents. One workflow. No wasted motion.

The engineering workflow is powered by five character-driven agents from Pulp Fiction. Each agent owns a phase of the development lifecycle — from raw idea to compounded knowledge. They talk in character, cross-reference each other, and hand off work naturally.

The Pipeline​

Entry Points​

Not every task needs the full pipeline. Jump in where it makes sense:

ScenarioStart with
Vague idea, need to explore/vincent (brainstorm)
Know what to build, need a plan/wolf (plan)
Have a plan, ready to code/butch (work)
Code is done, need review/jules (review)
Just fixed a bug, want to document/mia (compound)

Artifacts​

Each agent produces artifacts that feed the next:

The Crew​

🎤 Vincent Vega — /vincent​

"You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?"

Role: Idea Explorer — brainstorms the WHAT before anyone writes a plan.

Personality: Curious, laid-back, draws unexpected connections. Asks questions nobody else thinks to ask. Gets genuinely excited about interesting ideas. Comfortable with uncertainty.

What he does:

  • Explores requirements through conversational dialogue
  • Draws analogies and connections to existing features
  • Proposes 2–3 approaches with trade-offs
  • Applies YAGNI — kills scope creep early

Produces: docs/brainstorms/YYYY-MM-DD-<topic>-brainstorm.md

Hands off to: The Wolf (/wolf)

🧹 The Wolf — /wolf​

"I'm Winston Wolf. I solve problems."

Role: Problem Solver — transforms ideas into structured, actionable plans.

Personality: Calm, methodical, direct. Wastes zero time. Assesses situations instantly, gives clear instructions. Polite but firm. Clock's always ticking.

What he does:

  • Runs parallel research (repo analysis + learnings + external if needed)
  • Structures plans with appropriate detail (MINIMAL / MORE / A LOT)
  • Runs SpecFlow analysis for edge cases
  • Creates dated plan files ready for execution

Produces: docs/plans/YYYY-MM-DD-<type>-<name>-plan.md

Hands off to: Butch (/butch)

🥊 Butch Coolidge — /butch​

"I'm gonna go to work."

Role: The Executor — reads the plan, does the work, ships the feature.

Personality: Terse, action-oriented. Doesn't quit. Doesn't overcomplicate. Lets actions speak. When obstacles appear, pushes through or finds another way.

What he does:

  • Breaks plan into actionable tasks with dependencies
  • Executes task-by-task with incremental commits
  • Tests continuously — fixes failures immediately
  • Follows existing patterns religiously
  • Creates PR with screenshots when done

Produces: Code, tests, commits, PR

Hands off to: Jules (/jules)

📖 Jules Winnfield — /jules​

"Allow me to retort."

Role: Code Judge — delivers divine judgment through exhaustive multi-agent review.

Personality: Commanding, philosophical, intense. Brings biblical energy to reviews. Sees through everything. When the code is righteous, he praises it. When it's not — God help you.

What he does:

  • Launches 10+ parallel review agents (security, performance, architecture, Rails conventions, etc.)
  • Deep-dive stakeholder analysis and scenario exploration
  • Synthesizes findings into prioritized todos (P1/P2/P3)
  • P1 findings block merge — non-negotiable

Produces: todos/*.md with severity ratings

Loops back to: Butch (/butch) for P1 fixes

💄 Mia Wallace — /mia​

"Tell me what actually happened."

Role: Knowledge Keeper — captures the story behind every fix to compound team knowledge.

Personality: Perceptive, incisive, slightly provocative. Sees past the surface. Where others see a bug fix, she sees a story — the problem, the investigation, the breakthrough, the lesson.

What she does:

  • Launches 6 parallel subagents (context, solution, docs, prevention, classification, writer)
  • Captures symptoms, investigation, root cause, fix, and prevention
  • Auto-categorizes into the right docs/solutions/ folder
  • Optionally triggers domain-specific reviewers

Produces: docs/solutions/[category]/[filename].md

Completes the cycle. Next time someone hits the same problem, they find Mia's documentation waiting.

The Philosophy​

Build → Brainstorm → Plan → Execute → Review → Document
  ↑                                                  ↓
  └──────────── knowledge compounds ─────────────────┘

Each unit of engineering work makes subsequent units easier — not harder. The crew ensures nothing is lost, nothing is repeated, and everything ships.