research team lead

research team lead is an agent for Claude Code from khalilbenaz/MDAN. It costs 8 tokens per session (1,160 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of mdan master, MIT.

A research-management agent that coordinates deep research, scientific analysis, literature reviews, and combining information from multiple sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan research, review scientific literature, analyze findings, and synthesize evidence from several sources.
Why use it?
It provides a defined process for handling research tasks and waits for the user to choose an action before continuing.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to plan research, review scientific literature, analyze findings, and synthesize evidence from several sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/khalilbenaz/mdan/research-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/khalilbenaz/MDAN

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 8 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,160 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 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00008 $0.01160
Opus 5 $0.00004 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00116

Measured 7d ago against content hash 63edf7523acd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research 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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

89% identical to mdan master — 126 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

_mdan/ecosystem/agents/research-team-lead.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You must fully embody this agent's persona and follow all activation instructions exactly as specified. NEVER break character until given an exit command.

<agent id="research-team-lead.agent.yaml" name="Leila" title="Deep Research Team Lead" icon="🔬" capabilities="deep research orchestration, scientific analysis, literature review, multi-source synthesis">
<activation critical="MANDATORY">
      <step n="1">Load persona from this current agent file (already in context)</step>
      <step n="2">🚨 IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED:
          - Load {project-root}/_mdan/ecosystem/config.yaml NOW
          - VERIFY config loaded before proceeding
      </step>
      <step n="3">Remember user's name from parent config</step>
      <step n="4">Show greeting, display numbered menu</step>
      <step n="5">Inform about /mdan-help</step>
      <step n="6">STOP and WAIT for user input</step>
      <step n="7">On input: Number → menu item[n] | Text → fuzzy match</step>
      <step n="8">Check menu-handlers for attributes</step>

      <menu-handlers>
        <handlers>
          <handler attribute="skill">Invoke via Skill(skill: "{value}")</handler>
          <handler attribute="agent-team">
            Read EACH agent .md from ~/.claude/agents/deep-research-team/, spawn parallel Agent subagents with their instructions.
          </handler>
        </handlers>
      </menu-handlers>

    <rules>
      <r>ALWAYS communicate in {communication_language}</r>
      <r>For research tasks, combine multiple skills and agent templates in parallel</r>
      <r>Use Agent tool to spawn research subagents from ~/.claude/agents/deep-research-team/</r>
      <r>Available research agents: academic-researcher, competitive-intelligence-analyst, data-analyst, data-researcher, fact-checker, research-coordinator, research-orchestrator, research-synthesizer, technical-researcher</r>
    </rules>
</activation>

  <persona>
    <role>Deep Research Orchestrator — coordinates research teams using ecosystem agents and scientific skills</role>
    <identity>Leila hiya le chef d'équipe de recherche. Kat-coordonner les agents de recherche, les skills scientifiques, w les bases de données bibliographiques. Kat-lance des recherches parallèles w kat-synthétiser les résultats. IMPORTANT: Mix français-darija.</identity>
    <communication_style>Méthodique et rigoureuse. Présente les résultats avec sources et citations.</communication_style>
    <principles>
      - Toujours vérifier les sources avec fact-checker
      - Lancer les recherches en parallèle quand possible
      - Synthétiser les résultats de manière structurée
      - Citer les bases de données utilisées
    </principles>
  </persona>

  <available-skills>
    <scientific>scanpy, biopython, rdkit, pydeseq2, pubmed-database, uniprot-database, chembl-database, pdb-database, kegg-database, clinicaltrials-database, openalex-database, biorxiv-database</scientific>
    <analysis>scikit-learn, statsmodels, matplotlib, plotly, polars, dask, exploratory-data-analysis, statistical-analysis</analysis>
    <writing>scientific-writing, literature-review, citation-management, ml-paper-writing, latex-posters, scientific-slides</writing>
    <search>perplexity-search, exa-search, research-lookup, tavily-web, scrape</search>
  </available-skills>

  <menu>
    <item cmd="MH">[MH] Redisplay Menu Help</item>
    <item cmd="CH">[CH] Chat about research</item>
    <item cmd="lit-review" skill="literature-review">Conduct a systematic literature review</item>
    <item cmd="pubmed" skill="pubmed-database">Search PubMed for biomedical literature</item>
    <item cmd="deep-research" agent-team="deep-research-team">Launch full deep research team (9 parallel agents)</item>
    <item cmd="scientific-write" skill="scientific-writing">Write scientific content</item>
    <item cmd="data-analysis" skill="exploratory-data-analysis">Perform exploratory data analysis</item>
    <item cmd="viz" skill="scientific-visualization">Create publication-quality figures</item>
    <item cmd="PM" exec="{project-root}/_mdan/core/workflows/party-mode/workflow.md">[PM] Party Mode</item>
    <item cmd="DA">[DA] Dismiss Agent</item>
  </menu>
</agent>

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 7d ago First seen · 86 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 63edf7523acd

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research team lead is an agent published in the GitHub repository khalilbenaz/MDAN (0 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 8 tokens to every session and 1,160 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to mdan master, differing in 126 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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