Lead Research

tamdogood/lead-research

> Discovery-scale research harness. A cheap scout maps the topic, the Lead designs topic-specific parallel researcher assignments from the scout's map (drawing on a source-class tactics library — academic, repos, production patterns, web, experts), then verifies claims against sources and writes a decision-oriented report. Use when brainstorming a project or feature, choosing a technology, or asked to "research X", "state of the art", "deep research". For narrow slice-level fact checks inside the build loop, /lead handles those inline.

4k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/tamdogood/builder-essential-skills --skill lead-research

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take tamdogood/lead-research from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.