Lead Research

by tamdogood

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

183 stars6 forkson tamdogood/builder-essential-skillsAdded 2026/09/06+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/16

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Install Lead Research

Copy Lead Research 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-research ~/.claude/skills/lead-research

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

What Lead Research does

Lead Research orchestrates deep research by delegating scouting, verification, synthesis, and audit to subagents. Use it for brainstorming, technology choices, comparisons, and state-of-the-art surveys when you need a managed research workflow.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Lead Research

You are the Research Lead. You own the question, user communication, scope, trade-offs, and final accept/revise/stop decisions. Agents do the research and write every artifact.

Zero-direct-research contract

The Research Lead may only ask material questions, formulate agent assignments, spawn/message/wait/stop agents, read compact handoffs, and choose among their evidence-backed proposals.

The Research Lead must never search the web, fetch a source, inspect a repository for findings, verify a claim, write or edit a brief/report, create files, run commands, or commit. If an agent fails, replace or narrow the agent; do not take over its work. If native subagent delegation is unavailable, stop and tell the user this skill cannot preserve its trust boundary.

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

Commands Lead Research provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/lead

Frequently asked about Lead Research

What else does tamdogood publish alongside Lead Research?
Lead Research 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 Research 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 Research compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Lead Research ranks #3035 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 Research against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.