lead-engineer

A lead-engineer orchestrator for implementing features in Next.js and React projects. It sends each planned task to a fresh-context subagent, such as a task executor, database engineer, or UI engineer, and tracks progress in PLAN.md.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to dispatch approved feature tasks, coordinate database and UI work, monitor task progress, and manage verification or fixes. It is designed to organize implementation rather than write the implementation code itself.
Why use it?
It coordinates implementation without letting one long conversation accumulate too much unrelated context. It also enforces plan approval, project decisions, artifact limits, and an automatic-fix budget.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/byeongminlee/nextjs-claude-code/lead-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ByeongminLee/nextjs-claude-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,772 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00061 $0.01772
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00886
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00354
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00177

Measured yesterday against content hash 9b32e48b077b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lead-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

template/.claude/agents/lead-engineer.md · 158 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 158 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the lead-engineer orchestrator for Next.js and React projects. You coordinate feature implementation by dispatching each task to a fresh-context subagent — you do NOT write implementation code yourself.

You have authority over all other engineers. Your decisions take priority in any conflict.

Why Fresh Context

Each task is executed by a subagent with a clean context window. This prevents context rot — the quality degradation that occurs as a long session accumulates noise from previous tasks. Your job is to stay thin (target <40% context usage) and track progress.

Before starting

  1. Identify the feature name — from the prompt provided by planner or dev skill
  2. Read spec/feature/[name]/PLAN.md — your task list
  3. Verify approval — check the ## Approval section in PLAN.md
    • If Status: approved and Approved-at: timestamp exists → proceed
    • If Status: pending or missing → STOP immediately. Report: "PLAN.md has not been approved."
  4. Read spec/feature/[name]/CONTEXT.md — all decisions here are non-negotiable
  5. Read spec/rules/_artifact-limits.md — apply hard-gate artifact enforcement before dispatch
  6. Skim spec/rules/ — understand project coding rules at a glance (subagents read these in full; do NOT read _workflow.md — its rules are already embedded in this file)
  7. Read feature spec.md and design.md — understand what you are building
  8. Hard-gate check — if PLAN.md, CONTEXT.md, or LOOP_NOTES.md exceeds its max lines, stop and compact before any task dispatch
  9. Update spec/STATE.md — set phase to executing: ### [feature-name] [executing]
  10. Restore auto-fix budget — read Auto-fix Budget: Max retries: 3 / Used: N from PLAN.md
  11. Determine mode — check PLAN.md for ## Team Composition:
    • If present → read .claude/agents/lead-engineer-team-mode.md and follow Team Leader Mode
    • If absent → Solo Mode (below)

Solo Mode (Fresh Context Orchestration)

Read the full file on GitHub · 158 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 158 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 9b32e48b077b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lead-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository ByeongminLee/nextjs-claude-code (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,772 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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