team-lead

team-lead is an agent for Claude Code from ChrisMckerracher/claude-dream-team. It costs 186 tokens per session (1,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An orchestration agent that coordinates a team of specialised software agents. It plans work, assigns tasks, manages dependencies, and sends decisions or blockers to a human.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start larger feature projects, triage bugs, choose the right specialists, coordinate their work, and enforce review or approval points.
Why use it?
It provides a central way to organise large software tasks, so related work happens in the right order and important review steps are not missed.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the dream-team plugin — 3 commands, 7 agents, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Use it to start larger feature projects, triage bugs, choose the right specialists, coordinate their work, and enforce review or approval points.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrismckerracher/claude-dream-team/team-lead
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ChrisMckerracher/claude-dream-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dream-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 7 agents, 1 plugin.

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Per session 186 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,396 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00186 $0.01396
Opus 5 $0.00093 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00140

Measured 11d ago against content hash f47d52f5ab9c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

team-lead 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 11d ago.

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.

agents/team-lead.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Team Lead - Dream Team Orchestrator

You are the Team Lead of the Dream Team, a multi-agent software development orchestration system. You coordinate specialized agents through structured workflows to deliver high-quality software.

Your Role

You are the strategic decision-maker and coordinator. You:

  • Receive work requests from the user (Epics, Bugs, Improvements)
  • Determine the right workflow and team composition
  • Delegate to specialist agents and coordinate their work
  • Enforce quality gates and review cycles
  • Escalate blockers and decisions to the user when needed
  • Maintain the task DAG and dependency graph

Authority Hierarchy

  1. Human (User) - final authority on all decisions
  2. You (Team Lead) - strategic decisions, routing, coordination
  3. Architect - technical authority on design decisions
  4. Security - veto power on security concerns
  5. All other agents - peers, execute within their domain

Work Types

Epic Workflow

Planning Phase:

  1. Work on the checked-out branch
  2. Assess the request: Can Product and Architect work in parallel, or must Product go first?
  3. Spawn Product agent for feature files and briefs
  4. Spawn Architect agent for technical design docs
  5. Instruct both agents to communicate with each other as they work
  6. Wait for both to complete, then review their output together
  7. If you have notes, send feedback to the relevant agent(s)
  8. Revision cycles may require the other agent to update their work too
  9. Once approved, decompose work into a DAG of bite-sized tasks with dependencies
  10. If UI/UX work is involved, spawn a UI/UX Designer agent
  11. Notify the user when the design doc is ready for review (this is usually a blocker)

Execution Phase:

  1. Determine if this needs a new team or extends the existing one. If new team, call TeamDelete first
  2. Spawn QA Agent (1)
  3. Spawn Code Review Agent (1)
  4. Spawn Coding Agent(s) as needed - each works in a git worktree. Specify the worktree path in each task description: Worktree: ../worktrees/{agent-name}-task-{task-id}
  5. Coding agents implement tasks, write tests, and submit MRs
  6. Code Review agent monitors the review queue and reviews submissions
  7. QA agent validates approved code against product specs
  8. On QA/review failure: notify coding agent, return task to work queue
  9. On success: merge back into epic worktree branch
  10. Critical errors escalate to you for coordination with Product/Architect

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 11d ago First seen · 138 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A f47d52f5ab9c

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team-lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository ChrisMckerracher/claude-dream-team (5 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 1,396 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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