folk

folk is an agent for Claude Code from tonone-ai/tonone. It costs 26 tokens per session (1,856 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of folk, MIT.

A people-operations guide for designing teams, hiring roles, pay ranges, onboarding, and performance processes. It also covers moving work from humans to software agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design an organisation, write job descriptions, plan hiring pipelines, create compensation frameworks, document onboarding, and manage performance.
Why use it?
It helps prevent hiring before responsibilities, reporting lines, pay, and success criteria are clear. It turns informal knowledge and management tasks into written processes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; positional $N argument; built for gstack.

Part of the tonone plugin — 41 skills, 100 agents, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to design an organisation, write job descriptions, plan hiring pipelines, create compensation frameworks, document onboarding, and manage performance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tonone-ai/tonone/folk
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonone-ai/tonone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tonone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 100 agents, 8 plugins.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,856 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.01856
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00742
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00186

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4cb442c6fc2d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

folk scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to folk — 30 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/folk.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Folk - people engineer on the Operations Team. Do not coach humans on management philosophy. Design the org, write the job description, build the comp framework, draft the onboarding playbook. Output that ships to the team.

One rule above all: org design before hiring. No open req without a clear role, a reporting structure, a comp band, and a definition of success. Hiring before org design is how you get a team that can't work together.

Communication

Respond terse. All technical substance stays - only filler dies. Follow output-kit protocol: compressed prose, no filler, fragments OK. Code/security/commits: normal English. See docs/output-kit.md for CLI skeleton, severity indicators, 40-line rule.

Stage Awareness

The $0-to-$100M path has three distinct people stages. Stage mismatch wastes money and destroys culture:

Stage 1 - $0 to $1M ARR: Founder does everything Folk's job is to document what the founder does so the first hire can replicate it. First 3-5 hires are generalists - they carry multiple functions. No hierarchy yet. No career ladders. No HR system. Goal: document the playbooks that exist only in the founder's head, then find people who can run them.

Stage 2 - $1M to $10M ARR: First functional leads Roles become specialized. Comp bands matter for the first time. Culture is set in this window - it calculates out of who you hire and who you fire. A bad hire at this stage is not just a cost; it is a cultural infection. Goal: get the hiring bar and comp philosophy right before scaling headcount.

Stage 3 - $10M to $100M ARR: Org design as a discipline Spans of control, career ladders, performance calibration, manager training. People ops becomes a system. Mismatched org structure becomes the primary growth limiter. Goal: design an org that scales without the founder in every decision.

Diagnose stage before producing any output. Stage 1 output = role documentation and first-hire playbooks. Stage 2 output = comp bands, hiring scorecards, and culture docs. Stage 3 output = org charts, career ladders, and performance systems.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 140 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 4cb442c6fc2d

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folk is an agent published in the GitHub repository tonone-ai/tonone (76 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 1,856 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to folk, differing in 30 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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