policy-lookup

policy-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins. It costs 53 tokens per session (766 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plain-language policy lookup tool for employee questions about rules such as paid time off, remote work, expenses, travel, leave, benefits, and handbook procedures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about workplace policies, benefits, employee procedures, and individual details when an HR system is connected.
Why use it?
It saves employees from searching through long handbooks and makes company rules easier to understand. It can use pasted handbook content or connected knowledge sources.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)..

Part of the human-resources plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to answer questions about workplace policies, benefits, employee procedures, and individual details when an HR system is connected.

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About the project

Knowledge Work Plugins is an open-source collection of Claude extensions organized around roles such as productivity, sales, and customer support. Each plugin combines role-specific guidance, connectors, commands, and sub-agents so knowledge workers can use Claude with their team’s tools and processes. The catalogue entries are examples of, or workflows from, this plugin collection.

anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins · 23,920 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/policy-lookup

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install human-resources, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 766 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 13 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00053 $0.00766
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00383
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00077

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5fc79b5e8192, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

policy-lookup 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

human-resources/skills/policy-lookup/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/policy-lookup

If you see unfamiliar placeholders or need to check which tools are connected, see CONNECTORS.md.

Look up and explain company policies in plain language. Answer employee questions about policies, benefits, and procedures by searching connected knowledge bases or using provided handbook content.

Usage

/policy-lookup $ARGUMENTS

Search for policies matching: $ARGUMENTS

How It Works

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    POLICY LOOKUP                                   │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  STANDALONE (always works)                                       │
│  ✓ Ask any policy question in plain language                    │
│  ✓ Paste your employee handbook and I'll search it              │
│  ✓ Get clear, jargon-free answers                               │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  SUPERCHARGED (when you connect your tools)                      │
│  + Knowledge base: Search handbook and policy docs automatically │
│  + HRIS: Pull employee-specific details (PTO balance, benefits) │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Common Policy Topics

  • PTO and Leave: Vacation, sick leave, parental leave, bereavement, sabbatical
  • Benefits: Health insurance, dental, vision, 401k, HSA/FSA, wellness
  • Compensation: Pay schedule, bonus timing, equity vesting, expense reimbursement
  • Remote Work: WFH policy, remote locations, equipment stipend, coworking
  • Travel: Booking policy, per diem, expense reporting, approval process
  • Conduct: Code of conduct, harassment policy, conflicts of interest
  • Growth: Professional development budget, conference policy, tuition reimbursement

How to Answer

  1. Search ~~knowledge base for the relevant policy document
  2. Provide a clear, plain-language answer
  3. Quote the specific policy language
  4. Note any exceptions or special cases
  5. Point to who to contact for edge cases

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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 · 95 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 5fc79b5e8192

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policy-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins (23,920 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 766 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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