org-span

org-span is a command for Claude Code from frankxai/Starlight-Intelligence-System. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,824 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An organizational structure audit that examines how many people report to each manager and suggests changes to reporting lines. A span of control is the number of direct reports a manager has.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an org chart, identify top-heavy or over-stretched areas, and plan a staged redesign based on company size and growth rate.
Why use it?
It helps reveal overly layered teams, overloaded managers, and gaps in middle management. It also separates structural recommendations from employment-law decisions.

Command for Claude Code

Part of the starlight-intelligence-system plugin — 5 skills, 121 commands, 67 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/frankxai/starlight-intelligence-system/org-span
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frankxai/Starlight-Intelligence-System

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install starlight-intelligence-system, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 121 commands, 67 agents.

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Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,824 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found 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 $0.00074 $0.02824
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01412
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00282

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8e90494a8dcd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

org-span 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 5d 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.

.claude/commands/org-span.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/org-span

Load SIP.md, agents/starlight-org.md, skills/people-intelligence/org-architecture.md. If org chart exists in repo or attached, read it. Produce a Span-of-Control Architecture Audit + Redesign. Hand off to exactly one next command.

Disclaimer (non-waivable)

This is structural thinking architecture, not employment-law advice. Span changes that involve reporting-line shifts, demotions, or de-layering may implicate severance, classification, and protected-class considerations. Real decisions require qualified employment counsel.

Input

$ARGUMENTS

Flags

  • --size <under-10|10-50|50-200|200-1000|1000+> — total headcount. Smaller orgs typically have fewer span issues; larger orgs accumulate them at predictable scale transitions.
  • --growth-stage <stable|growing|scaling|hypergrowth>:
    • stable — flat or declining headcount; span issues are typically calcified
    • growing — 10-25% YoY headcount growth; span issues emerging at the founder/exec layer
    • scaling — 25-50% YoY; classic top-heavy / middle-thin pattern
    • hypergrowth — >50% YoY; span issues are the dominant constraint

Research bounds (cite directly)

  • Complex knowledge work: ~5-9 direct reports per manager
  • Repetitive supervised work: up to 15-20 direct reports per manager
  • Founder-CEOs in growth-stage: commonly over-span at 10-15 directs; cost shows as decision bottlenecks, neglected reports, founder burnout, and a "thin middle" because layer-1 directs absorb work that should belong to a layer-2 they don't have
  • Pattern: most orgs over-span at the top (founder/execs), under-span in the middle (managers with 2-3 reports — too few to justify the management overhead), and have variable span at IC layer

Process

  1. Disclaim.

  2. Inventory current spans. For each manager (founder, execs, directors, managers):

    • Count direct reports
    • Classify work complexity per report (knowledge work / repetitive supervised / mixed)
    • Note whether reports are themselves managers (creates a span-of-spans question — managing managers is more complex than managing ICs and tightens the bound)
    • Time-allocation snapshot: how much of the manager's week goes to managing the directs vs other work?

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 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. 5d ago First seen · 196 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 8e90494a8dcd

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org-span is a command published in the GitHub repository frankxai/Starlight-Intelligence-System (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,824 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.