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Abstract The problem of distributed control for second order leader-follower multi-agent systems with prescribed performance guarantees is investigated in this paper. Leader-follower is meant in the sense that a group of agents with external inputs are selected as leaders in order to drive the group of followers in a way that the entire system can achieve consensus within certain prescribed performance transient bounds. Under the assumption of tree graphs, we propose a distributed control law based on a backstepping approach for the group of leaders to steer the entire system achieving consensus within the prescribed performance bounds. Finally, a simulation example is given to verify the results.