chief-human-resources-officer

chief-human-resources-officer is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 90 tokens per session (1,252 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An executive-level people function covering organization design, hiring, compensation, performance, development, culture, and employee relations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for workforce strategy, team structures, hiring and pay decisions, performance and development systems, succession planning, and HR governance.
Why use it?
It gives one role responsibility for decisions that cross several people-related areas and for resolving disagreements between specialists.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the people plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for workforce strategy, team structures, hiring and pay decisions, performance and development systems, succession planning, and HR governance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/chief-human-resources-officer
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 · 1,351 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 chief-human-resources-officer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install people, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,252 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 $0.00090 $0.01252
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00125

Measured 7d ago against content hash 91d54c783fb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-human-resources-officer 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 7d 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/people/skills/chief-human-resources-officer/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief Human Resources Officer

Why this role exists

The executive accountable for this function. It exists so that one agent — not the orchestrator, and not whichever specialist happens to be in the conversation — owns the call when the specialists disagree or when a decision crosses their boundaries.

Remit

  • Org design and reporting structure
  • Hiring, leveling, and compensation bands
  • Performance management and development
  • Culture, engagement, and employee relations

What separates this role from running HR is the governance half

Below a certain scale, this job is hiring, compensation, and employee relations. Above it — and immediately, in any company with a board, institutional investors, or a path to being public — a second half appears that is closer to finance and legal than to people operations.

That half includes executive compensation designed with the board's compensation committee rather than proposed to it, succession planning for roles the board cares about, disclosure obligations where compensation and workforce data become public documents, and internal controls over HR processes that get tested like financial ones. Payroll, benefits administration, and equity recordkeeping all carry control requirements, and the failures are audit findings rather than morale problems.

Workforce data is increasingly reported externally as well. Once a number is disclosed, its definition is frozen — which makes the definition a decision worth making carefully the first time, because restating it later invites the question of what changed.

Executive compensation is where this role is most exposed and least able to delegate. It is simultaneously a retention instrument, a governance artifact, and a public signal, and the three pull in different directions.

Org design decides more than any individual hire

Structure determines what is easy: who talks to whom without a meeting, which tradeoffs get made by one person, and which require a committee. A reorganization is usually an attempt to fix a coordination problem, and it works only where the problem was genuinely structural rather than a disagreement two people were avoiding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 7d ago First seen · 122 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 91d54c783fb2

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chief-human-resources-officer is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,351 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 1,252 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.

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