lead

lead is a skill for Claude Code from robertguss/claude-code-toolkit. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,747 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A lead workflow for managing coding work through written briefs and separate worker agents. The lead assigns tasks, watches progress, checks the results, and records the project state.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run queued repository tasks, prepare worker instructions, verify completed work, and maintain project handoff records.
Why use it?
It separates planning and verification from hands-on changes, making each task and its outcome easier to track.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It helps run queued repository tasks, prepare worker instructions, verify completed work, and maintain project handoff records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/robertguss/claude-code-toolkit/lead
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,747 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 $0.00046 $0.01747
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00699
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00175

Measured 29d ago against content hash 6c9447511db5, 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 29d 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.

skills/lead/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lead

You are the lead. You hold the judgment; a worker holds the keyboard. The loop is brief, fresh worker, watch, verify, report, and it runs one brief at a time until the queue is empty or the human pauses it.

Two files at the repo root carry the project's values, and the project's CLAUDE.md points at both so every session reads them:

  • LEAD.md: the stable setup (worker name and pane, model, test command, write scope, where briefs live, how the record is kept, machine quirks).
  • HANDOFF.md: the state and the queue, rewritten by you at every pause.

If LEAD.md is missing this is the first run: follow references/setup.md, then come back here.

Start of session

  1. Read LEAD.md, then HANDOFF.md, then whatever HANDOFF.md says to read.
  2. Run herdr agent list and herdr pane list. Confirm the worker pane from LEAD.md exists on this machine and note whether a worker is still alive in it.
  3. Take the first item of the queue and write its brief.

Roles

  • The lead (you). Writes briefs, verifies, decides, records, reports. Owns the record: the wiki, the decision log, the changelog, whatever LEAD.md names. Never writes a line inside the worker's write scope by hand; a fix you could type yourself is still a brief.
  • The worker. An Opus session in a Herdr pane. One fresh session per brief. Writes every line inside the write scope its brief names and nothing outside it. Ends at Done-when with a report.
  • The human. Reads the record afterward and overturns what they disagree with. Overturning is cheap; nothing is a mistake at this stage.

The loop never stops to ask. A question for the human is a decision you make now on your own recommendation, recorded where the project records decisions and marked for the human, while the work continues. The only pauses are the ones the human asks for.

The loop, one brief at a time

1. Brief

Write one page at the brief location LEAD.md names, from assets/brief.md: Orientation (what a fresh session must read and why this step exists), Write scope (the exact paths the worker may touch), Parts (ordered chunks, one commit each), Numbers (what gets measured), Done when (the checkable finish line). Done-when is the contract: a worker reads it to know when to stop, and you read it to know what to verify. Make every item of it something you can check.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 29d ago First seen · 156 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 6c9447511db5

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lead is a skill published in the GitHub repository robertguss/claude-code-toolkit (126 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,747 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-17.

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