operating-cadence

operating-cadence is a skill for Claude Code from beingsmit/technical-product-gtm. It costs 53 tokens per session (3,738 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of gtm-operating-cadence, MIT.

A system for organizing meetings, reports, planning, and decision-making as a company grows. It separates meetings by purpose, frequency, and who has authority to decide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design meeting schedules, leadership reviews, company planning, metric reporting, and decision processes for growing or distributed teams.
Why use it?
It helps reduce unproductive meetings, unclear ownership, slow decisions, and poor communication between teams.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the technical-product-gtm plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design meeting schedules, leadership reviews, company planning, metric reporting, and decision processes for growing or distributed teams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/beingsmit/technical-product-gtm/operating-cadence
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add beingsmit/technical-product-gtm --skill operating-cadence
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/beingsmit/technical-product-gtm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install technical-product-gtm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 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 3,738 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 $0.00053 $0.03738
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01869
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00748
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00374

Measured 10d ago against content hash ccd6036538a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

operating-cadence 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 10d 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 gtm-operating-cadence — 5 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.

skills/operating-cadence/SKILL.md · 422 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 422 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operating Cadence

The meeting structure that worked at 30 people collapses at 100. What worked at 100 collapses at 300. The failure mode is always the same: too many people in too many meetings making too few decisions.

When to Use

Triggers:

  • "Our meetings don't produce decisions"
  • "We're growing but alignment is getting worse"
  • "How often should we meet?"
  • "Nobody knows what's happening across functions"
  • "Decisions take forever"
  • "Leadership is in meetings all day"

Context:

  • Companies scaling from 20 to 300+ people
  • Post-PMF through growth stage
  • Distributed / remote teams
  • Any stage where "we need to talk about this" has become the default

Core Frameworks

1. The Five-Level Meeting Architecture

The Pattern:

Different meetings serve different purposes. Conflating them creates either inefficiency (too much time) or confusion (unclear decisions). Separate meetings by function, frequency, and decision authority.

Level 1: Daily Standup (15 min, teams only)

  • What we finished yesterday, what we're starting today, what's blocking us
  • 5-10 people max. Whole-company standups are theater
  • Anti-pattern: Status reporting (use Slack, not meetings)
  • Anti-pattern: Strategic discussion (wrong time, wrong place)
  • Success criteria: Finishes in 15 minutes, surfaces 1-2 blockers

Level 2: Weekly Functional Reviews (60 min, function leadership)

Each function gets its own weekly rhythm:

  • Product team Friday 4pm: metrics, user feedback, roadmap blockers
  • GTM team Tuesday 4pm: pipeline, customer updates, deal health
  • Engineering Wednesday 4pm: velocity, bug backlog, deployment

Format: Metric recap (10 min) → Wins/blockers (15 min) → One deep-dive (30 min) → Next week priorities (5 min)

Anti-pattern: Trying to solve every problem in the meeting. Pick 1-2, delegate the rest to follow-ups.

Level 3: Weekly All-Hands (60 min, whole company)

The single most important alignment mechanism at a scaling company.

  • CEO update (15 min): north star progress, week focus, what's changed
  • Metric dashboard (10 min): same format every week (consistency enables pattern recognition)
  • Deep dive (20 min): one strategic topic needing team input — not a presentation, a discussion
  • Q&A (15 min): real questions, real answers

Read the full file on GitHub · 422 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. 10d ago First seen · 422 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A ccd6036538a0

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operating-cadence is a skill published in the GitHub repository beingsmit/technical-product-gtm (42 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,738 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to gtm-operating-cadence, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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