lead

lead is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adonai-labs/agent-runway. It costs 100 tokens per session (5,712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured workflow for taking a software change from exploring the problem through implementation and handoff for review. It classifies work by complexity and adds design, approval, testing, and review steps when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build features, change APIs or database contracts, refactor services, add background jobs, or coordinate work across multiple parts of an application.
Why use it?
It prevents larger or riskier changes from being implemented without considering design choices, affected layers, contracts, and validation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is Adding a new stack? See [EXTENDING.md](../../../../EXTENDING.md) for how to register a new stack module here..

Good fit Use it to build features, change APIs or database contracts, refactor services, add background jobs, or coordinate work across multiple parts of an application.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adonai-labs/agent-runway
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adonai-labs/agent-runway/lead

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,712 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 $0.00100 $0.05712
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.02856
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.01142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00571

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0db02c21ba1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

src/core/skills/lead/SKILL.md · 529 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 529 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Implementation Lead

Apply shared policy: ../shared/caveman-skill-engineering.md

Invoke Command

/lead <description of what to build>

Examples:

  • /lead add order cancellation endpoint
  • /lead refactor payment service to use Result pattern
  • /lead implement background job for invoice generation

Not sure which skill to use? Start with /start — it classifies intent and routes to the right skill.


Task Classification

Before any phase, classify the task. This determines which phases are required.

Evaluate these three signals:

  1. Does this involve a design decision? (new pattern, layer boundary, architectural choice)
  2. Does this touch more than one layer? (e.g. Domain + Application, or Application + API)
  3. Does this change a contract? (API shape, event schema, public DTO, database migration)
Classification Signals Workflow
Trivial All three: No Skip to Phase 4. Document reason for skipping in a one-line note.
Standard Any one: Yes Full 10-phase workflow.
Complex Two or more: Yes, or involves a new subsystem or breaking change Full workflow, Phase 0 mandatory with /architect skill.

Also classify decision risk for gating depth:

  • Impact: low/medium/high
  • Reversibility: reversible/hard-to-reverse/irreversible
  • Uncertainty: low/medium/high
  • Cost of error: low/medium/high

Contrarian trigger (any true):

  • impact is high and reversibility is hard-to-reverse or irreversible
  • uncertainty is high
  • contract/public interface change with ambiguous outcomes
  • architecture decision with multiple viable paths

Example trivial: fix a typo in a log message, add a missing null guard on an existing method, update a config value. Example standard: add a new query endpoint, extend an existing handler, add a validator. Example complex: introduce a new aggregate, change an event schema, split a service.

Non-Negotiable Decomposition Rule

Read the full file on GitHub · 529 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 529 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 0db02c21ba1c

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lead is a skill published in the GitHub repository adonai-labs/agent-runway (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 5,712 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.