What is Gangsta Agents?
An AI agentic skills framework for spec-driven development, organized around the mafia family metaphor.
What is Gangsta Agents?
Gangsta Agents is an AI agentic skills framework for spec-driven development. It provides a structured protocol — organized around the mafia family metaphor — that turns chaotic AI-assisted coding into disciplined, repeatable operations.
The core idea: Before you write a single line of code, you write a spec. Before you execute, you plan. The Heist Pipeline ensures every feature goes through reconnaissance, debate, and approval before implementation begins.
The 1% Rule
The framework's single most important behavioral rule:
If there's even a 1% chance a Gangsta Agents skill applies to what you're doing, you must invoke it. No rationalizing your way around the framework.
This means no skipping steps, no deciding "this is too simple for a Heist," and no going straight to code. The framework exists because undisciplined AI agents produce unreliable output — the skills enforce the discipline that produces reliable results.
The Heist Pipeline
Every feature development cycle in Gangsta Agents is called a Heist — a 6-phase operational process: