process-excellence

process-excellence is a skill for Claude Code from anotb/management-consulting-plugin. It costs 137 tokens per session (3,242 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process-improvement method based on Lean Six Sigma, a structured approach for reducing waste, variation, and errors in business processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for diagnosing slow, costly, or error-prone processes and guiding their definition, measurement, analysis, improvement, and ongoing control.
Why use it?
It requires evidence about process boundaries, measurements, and events before proposing changes, helping avoid solutions based on invented or weak baselines.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the management-consulting plugin — 16 skills 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 skills/anotb/management-consulting-plugin/process-excellence
Any agent
npx skills add anotb/management-consulting-plugin --skill process-excellence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anotb/management-consulting-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install management-consulting, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,242 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 5.1 $0.00137 $0.03242
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01621
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00648
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00324

Measured 6d ago against content hash 748a01c6c8e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

process-excellence 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.

skills/process-excellence/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Process Excellence

Apply Lean Six Sigma to analyze, improve, and control business processes. Lean kills waste and improves flow. Six Sigma reduces variation and defects. Run them together: Lean makes the process faster, Six Sigma makes it reliable. One without the other leaves money on the table.

Before you produce anything, get real inputs. Ask for the process boundaries, baseline metrics, and event data. If the user cannot supply numbers, say so and mark every figure you use as an illustrative example that needs validation. A process analysis built on invented baselines is worse than no analysis, because it looks credible and points the team in the wrong direction.

DMAIC Methodology

DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) is the structured path for improving an existing process. Each phase has a deliverable and a gate. Do not advance until the gate is cleared. The two phases where engagements live or die are Measure (bad baselines poison everything downstream) and Analyze (skipping to solutions is the single most common failure). Spend your judgment there. The rest is disciplined execution.

Define

Articulate the opportunity before anyone proposes a fix.

Problem statement: Quantify the current problem in cycle time, cost, quality, or customer satisfaction. "Invoice approval is slow" is not a problem statement. "Invoice approval averages 6.2 days against a 2-day SLA, and 18% breach it" is. A vague problem produces a vague solution.

Scope: State what is in and what is out. Projects that try to fix the whole value chain fix nothing. Pick a start point and an end point and defend them.

Success criteria: Set measurable targets per metric. Record current state, target state, and the percentage improvement expected. If you cannot name the metric, you cannot claim the win.

Project charter:

  • Problem statement with quantified impact
  • Process boundaries (explicit start and end points)
  • Success metrics with baselines and targets
  • Timeline per DMAIC phase
  • Team: process owner, sponsor, project lead, working members

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 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 · 237 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 748a01c6c8e0

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process-excellence is a skill published in the GitHub repository anotb/management-consulting-plugin (47 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 3,242 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.

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