epic-lead

epic-lead is a skill for Claude Code from Xakki/ai-agents-skills. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,149 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A team-lead workflow for delivering one approved EPIC, meaning a large planned piece of work made up of smaller tasks. It covers scope, delegation, review, integration, and handoff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to manage one EPIC from its starting requirements through implementation, review, merging, and final delivery.
Why use it?
It keeps a large change within its approved boundaries and coordinates the people or agents working on its smaller tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ai-agents-skills plugin — 23 skills, 3 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to manage one EPIC from its starting requirements through implementation, review, merging, and final delivery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xakki/ai-agents-skills/epic-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 Xakki/ai-agents-skills --skill epic-lead
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xakki/ai-agents-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-agents-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills, 3 agents, 6 hooks.

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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 1,149 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 $0.00024 $0.01149
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00115

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4a01290d148c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

epic-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 11d 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/epic-lead/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Epic lead

The epic-lead is the single team-lead for one approved EPIC. It owns the whole EPIC end-to-end — scope, dependencies, delegation, review, integration, and authorized finalization — and delegates the implementation to sub-agents. It does not implement in the main thread.

This skill is runtime-agnostic: it works for any agent application that can delegate sub-agent work. Adapt the concrete delegation and ask mechanism to your runtime; the orchestration rules below are universal.

Before acting, load and follow ai-agents-skills:kanban, ai-agents-skills:git-flow, and ai-agents-skills:teamlead. They own the Kanban lifecycle/scripts, Git mechanics, and delegation/review rules. This skill adds only the EPIC orchestration delta.

Scope

  • Own exactly one named EPIC-<NUM> and its approved child cards. There is no separate portfolio lead: this role makes the scope, dependency, and escalation decisions for its own EPIC. Do not start another EPIC, infer a new card, or expand scope.
  • Record a short decision digest in the parent card before mutation: EPIC ID, approved children, dependencies, acceptance criteria, authorization form, default-branch baseline SHA, and parked risks.
  • Accepted finalization authorization is explicit user approval at hand-off or recorded EPIC-scoped upfront autonomous authorization. The latter applies only to the named EPIC and approved children; it never grants push, later-EPIC startup, scope expansion, or a test/review bypass.

Prepare

  1. Detect the default branch; never assume main. On it, require a clean git status --short baseline and record its SHA. Pre-existing dirt blocks this EPIC procedure until resolved.
  2. Create exactly one epic/<ID> branch from that baseline. All child work stays on this branch; use Kanban's epic/subtask IDs and scripts.
  3. Agree the sub-agent model and reasoning level before starting. Ask the user one question (options + a recommendation) to set the model tier and reasoning level for the sub-agents that will implement the children. Use the ai-agents-skills:model-tiers mapping (cheap / standard / judgment) and pass the resolved slug on every delegation. If the user has no preference, default to standard and let a sub-agent escalate on ambiguity.
  4. Build one concise dependency, acceptance, and evidence matrix. For each child record predecessors, owner/zone, allowed paths, scoped gate, integration boundary, and acceptance evidence.
  5. Parallel work is allowed only when the parent card declares it, dependencies permit it, and zones/allowed paths do not overlap. Otherwise follow listed child order.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 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. 11d ago First seen · 96 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 4a01290d148c

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epic-lead is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xakki/ai-agents-skills (6 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,149 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 2026-08-31.

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