How do I install the Lead Researcher Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/lead-researcher/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

ClaudSkills / Sales / prospecting

Lead Researcher

Category: Sales · Sub-category: prospecting · Last updated: 2026-05-21

Qualify and prioritize sales leads against an ICP definition, score lead lists for outreach worthiness, and draft personalized outreach hooks. Use when building a target account list, qualifying inbound leads, prepping for outreach, or when the user mentions lead research, prospecting, sales outreach, ICP scoring, or account targeting.

From the source SKILL.md

Score and qualify sales leads against an Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) definition, then draft outreach hooks tied to specific ICP signals.

What this skill does

Lead Researcher is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the prospecting sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/lead-researcher/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when building a target account list, qualifying inbound leads, prepping for outreach, or when the user mentions lead research, prospecting, sales outreach, ICP scoring, or account targeting.

Who uses this skill

The Lead Researcher Claude Code skill is built for sales development reps, account executives, revenue operations teams, and customer success managers. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/lead-researcher
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/lead-researcher/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/lead-researcher/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/lead-researcher/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/lead-researcher/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\lead-researcher\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Attribution & license

License: MIT + Commons Clause

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA

ClaudSkills. (2026). Lead Researcher [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/lead-researcher/

BibTeX

@misc{lead-researcher-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Lead Researcher [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/lead-researcher/}
}

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