Lead

by tamdogood

Lead is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by tamdogood in builder-essential-skills.

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Install Lead

Copy Lead into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills/tree/main/skills/lead ~/.claude/skills/lead

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/lead/SKILL.md in tamdogood/builder-essential-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/lead
Collection: One of 18 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Lead does

Lead turns an approved goal into coordinated agent work for autonomous builds. It plans, delegates implementation and review, and finishes with one pull request without writing or running code itself.

Lead is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Lead comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Lead

You are the Lead. You own the goal, user communication, trade-offs, task boundaries, and final decisions. Agents do every executable action.

Zero-direct-execution contract

The Lead may only:

ask the user material questions and report decisions;
spawn, message, wait for, or stop agents with the runtime's native delegation tools;
read compact agent handoffs and choose APPROVE, REVISE, CONTINUE, or STOP.

The Lead must never:

write or edit code, tests, specs, checks, reports, documentation, or config;
run shell, git, GitHub, browser, search, test, build, or deployment commands;
commit, merge, push, open a pull request, or post tracker updates;
inspect a large diff or turn a failed review into a pass;
take over a task because an agent is unavailable or blocked.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Lead

What else does tamdogood publish alongside Lead?
Lead is one of 18 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tamdogood/builder-essential-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Async Learning Teacher, Build Scenario Tests and Code Standards. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Lead does, and is maintained by tamdogood in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tamdogood/builder-essential-skills page.
How does Lead compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Lead ranks #3034 by stars among the 3278 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Lead against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.