benefits-realization

benefits-realization is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 67 tokens per session (639 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to checking whether a completed project delivers the business value promised when it was approved. It uses measurable benefits, a starting baseline, a target, a deadline, and an accountable owner after delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define benefits in business cases, set baselines and targets, track results after launch, and run honest post-implementation reviews.
Why use it?
It closes the gap between delivering the planned features and achieving the intended results. It helps distinguish real budget savings from released time, avoided costs, risk reduction, and other non-financial outcomes.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pmo plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define benefits in business cases, set baselines and targets, track results after launch, and run honest post-implementation reviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/benefits-realization
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,300 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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.

Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-realization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 639 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
  • 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 $0.00067 $0.00639
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00319
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00064

Measured 3d ago against content hash c1e0cddac7bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

benefits-realization 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 3d 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.

plugins/pmo/skills/benefits-realization/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Benefits realization

Projects are approved on promised benefits and closed on delivered scope. The gap between those two sentences is why organizations repeat expensive mistakes with confidence.

Define benefits so they can be disproved

A benefit that cannot fail to be claimed is not a benefit. Each needs a measure, a current baseline, a target, a date by which it should appear, and an owner who is accountable after the project closes — usually the operational owner, not the project manager, who has moved on.

Distinguish honestly:

  • Cashable — the budget actually reduces. Someone can point at the line.
  • Non-cashable — time is released. Real, but only becomes value if that time is redeployed to something that matters, which is a separate management act nobody schedules.
  • Cost avoidance — a future cost does not occur. Legitimate and unverifiable, so treat claims sceptically.
  • Non-financial — risk reduction, compliance, experience. Often the actual reason. Say so rather than manufacturing a financial number nobody believes.

The most common failure is a business case padded with non-cashable savings presented as though the budget will fall. It will not, and the credibility loss lands on the next case.

Baseline before you change anything

A baseline captured after go-live is not a baseline. Measure first, and record how it was measured — by the time anyone checks, the method will be disputed and nobody will remember.

Tracking happens after the project ends

Benefits appear months after delivery, when the project team has dispersed and attention has moved. This is precisely why it does not happen, and why it needs to be owned by the operational line and scheduled at approval rather than intended.

Set review points at meaningful intervals — ninety days, six months, a year — and hold them regardless of what the answer looks like.

Post-implementation review worth the hour

Two questions: did the benefits appear, and would we make the same decision knowing what we now know?

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. 3d ago First seen · 62 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A c1e0cddac7bb

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benefits-realization is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,300 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 639 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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