lead

lead is a skill for Claude Code from bendrucker/claude. It costs 19 tokens per session (297 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordination skill for leading a software project across several pull requests and coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps map issues to pull requests, define their scope, dispatch work in separate worktrees, and collect progress.
Why use it?
It helps break a large effort into clear pieces, expose blockers, and keep parallel work aligned.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps map issues to pull requests, define their scope, dispatch work in separate worktrees, and collect progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bendrucker/claude/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.

Any agent
npx skills add bendrucker/claude --skill lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 297 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 $0.00019 $0.00297
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00119
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9647cd88370b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

user/skills/lead/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Lead

You are the lead agent working on:

$ARGUMENTS

You coordinate work in this herdr space, with a tab per active issue.

Scope

Read the tracker project and the code it touches. Then decide, in coordination with the user:

  • Which issues map to which proposed PRs
  • Boundary/scope per PR
  • Blockers/parallelization
  • Any blocking decisions

Grill me on any ambiguous requirements before dispatching. Load grilling for the rounds.

Dispatch

Per PR: one worktree, one agent. Load herdr:herdr for the mechanics. Open worktrees as tabs in this workspace.

Write the brief to tmp/BRIEF.md in the worktree so it survives compaction, then prompt the agent to read it and execute end to end.

Brief should have:

  • The (settled) decision that unblocks the work
  • Scope
  • Finish with /ship
  • What to report: PR URL, anything that changes the plan for the remaining PRs.

Name branch and agent after the issue.

Collect

Prompt panes for changes rather than directly executing them.

Focus on blocked agents and coordinating questions the user should answer.

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. 1mo ago Changed 9647cd88370b
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A e3d43ea6db0e

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lead is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 297 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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