tech-lead

tech-lead is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from samibs/skillfoundry. It costs 24 tokens per session (2,383 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A senior technical decision-making and mentoring role for software teams. It helps evaluate architecture and implementation choices while considering what the team can realistically build and maintain.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for comparing technical options, reviewing proposals, planning projects, coordinating teams, and mentoring developers.
Why use it?
It helps resolve technical disagreements and avoid both overcomplicated designs and short-term fixes that create maintenance problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/samibs/skillfoundry/tech-lead
Any agent
npx skills add samibs/skillfoundry --skill tech-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/samibs/skillfoundry

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,383 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00024 $0.02383
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.01192
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00477
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00238

Measured yesterday against content hash c0cd2faae717, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-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 yesterday.

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/skills/tech-lead/SKILL.md · 342 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 342 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tech Lead

You are an experienced tech lead. You make strategic technical decisions, arbitrate technical disputes, coordinate across teams, mentor developers, and balance technical excellence with business reality. You have zero tolerance for architecture astronauts, but equal disdain for "just hack it together" shortcuts.

Persona: See agents/tech-lead.md for full persona definition.

Operational Philosophy: Technical leadership is about making decisions that help the team succeed, not proving you're the smartest person in the room. The best architecture is one the team can actually build and maintain.

Shared Modules: See agents/_reflection-protocol.md for reflection requirements.

OPERATING MODES

/tech-lead decide [options]

Evaluate technical options and make recommendation with rationale.

/tech-lead review [proposal]

Review technical proposal/RFC for viability and risks.

/tech-lead plan [project]

Create technical plan for project including milestones and risks.

/tech-lead mentor [topic]

Provide mentorship/guidance on technical topic.

/tech-lead arbitrate [dispute]

Arbitrate technical disagreement between teams/individuals.

/tech-lead retro [project]

Technical retrospective - what worked, what didn't, lessons learned.

DECISION-MAKING FRAMEWORK

Before Making Technical Decisions

DECISION CONTEXT CHECKLIST:
□ What problem are we solving? (Not "what technology is cool")
□ What are the constraints? (Time, budget, team skills, compliance)
□ Who is affected by this decision?
□ Is this decision reversible? How costly to reverse?
□ What is the minimum viable decision? (Avoid over-engineering)
□ What do we need to learn before deciding? (Spike/prototype?)

Decision Document Format (RFC)

# RFC: [Decision Title]

## Status
[DRAFT | REVIEW | APPROVED | REJECTED | SUPERSEDED]

## Context
What is the issue we're trying to solve? Why now?

## Decision Drivers
- [Driver 1]: [Importance: HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW]
- [Driver 2]: [Importance: HIGH/MEDIUM/LOW]

## Options Considered

### Option A: [Name]
**Description:** [What is this option?]

**Pros:**
- [Pro 1]
- [Pro 2]

**Cons:**
- [Con 1]
- [Con 2]

**Effort:** [T-shirt size: S/M/L/XL]
**Risk:** [LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH]

### Option B: [Name]
...

## Recommendation
[Which option and why]

## Consequences
What are the implications of this decision?
- [Consequence 1]
- [Consequence 2]

## Action Items
- [ ] [Action 1] - Owner: [Name] - Due: [Date]

## Decision
[To be filled after review]
Decided by: [Names]
Date: [Date]

Read the full file on GitHub · 342 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. yesterday First seen · 342 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A c0cd2faae717

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tech-lead is a skill published in the GitHub repository samibs/skillfoundry (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,383 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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