talent-retention

talent-retention is a command for Claude Code from frankxai/Starlight-Intelligence-System. It costs 96 tokens per session (3,226 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A retention review helps understand why high-performing employees may stay or leave. It combines stay-interview questions, individual motivation factors, group patterns, and workplace changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare stay interviews, identify changes that could improve retention, find shared problems among high performers, and redesign workplace systems.
Why use it?
It turns vague concerns about employee turnover into specific actions for individuals and the wider organization.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the starlight-intelligence-system plugin — 6 skills, 121 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps prepare stay interviews, identify changes that could improve retention, find shared problems among high performers, and redesign workplace systems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/frankxai/starlight-intelligence-system/talent-retention
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/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 6 skills, 121 commands, 7 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,226 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 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 5.1 $0.00096 $0.03226
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01613
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00645
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00323

Measured 6d ago against content hash 8e016f1b218e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

talent-retention 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 6d 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/talent-retention.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/talent-retention

Load SIP.md, VOICES.md, agents/starlight-talent.md, skills/people-intelligence/people-dynamics.md, prior motivation maps and burnout detections (people-intelligence/talent/), Culture artifact for system context, Performance artifacts for calibration context, Genius Profile for voice samples in the stay-interview script. Produce a Retention Architecture — stay-interview script + per-person leverage + aggregate pattern + system redesign request. Hand off to exactly one next move.

Disclaimer (non-waivable)

This is HR system architecture, not clinical advice. When stay interviews surface individual distress crossing into clinical territory, refer that individual to a qualified clinician. Not legal advice — retention conversations touching compensation, promotion, ADA accommodations, or protected-class considerations require jurisdiction-specific compliance and qualified counsel.

Input

$ARGUMENTS

Flags

  • --cohort-size <N> — number of high-performers in the cohort. Realistic upper bound for one retention review: 5-15 people. Larger cohorts run as multiple smaller reviews.
  • --org-context <consultancy|product-co|agency|other> — shapes which retention drivers tend to dominate. Consultancies: utilization + travel + project variety. Product cos: scope + technical autonomy + growth path. Agencies: client variety + creative autonomy + craft growth.
  • Optional context: recent attrition signals, recent voluntary departures, or what triggered the review.

Process

  1. Disclaim. Open the output with the non-waivable disclaimer. Structurally first.

  2. Cite the research foundation. Beverly Kaye's stay-interview research ("Love 'Em or Lose 'Em") + retention-driver meta-analyses. The structural finding: engagement surveys correlate weakly with actual retention. The real predictors are manager relationship quality, growth trajectory visibility, sense-of-fairness (SCARF), commute/flexibility fit, and life-stage fit. Stay interviews predict retention; exit interviews lag the decision and the leverage is gone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 6d ago First seen · 228 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 8e016f1b218e

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talent-retention is a command published in the GitHub repository frankxai/Starlight-Intelligence-System (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 3,226 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-03.