dependency-and-risk-management

dependency-and-risk-management is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 62 tokens per session (697 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to managing risks that could prevent a project from being delivered and dependencies between teams. A dependency is work one team needs from another, with an agreed owner and date.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build usable risk registers, confirm cross-team commitments, track what teams owe one another, and decide what to escalate.
Why use it?
It prevents plans from relying on unconfirmed promises and helps teams act on risks before they become delays. It also makes hidden, multi-step dependencies easier to find and escalate.

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 build usable risk registers, confirm cross-team commitments, track what teams owe one another, and decide what to escalate.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/dependency-and-risk-management
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 · 1,320 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 dependency-and-risk-management
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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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 697 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 $0.00062 $0.00697
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00070

Measured 5d ago against content hash a89cccacb656, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dependency-and-risk-management 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.

plugins/pmo/skills/dependency-and-risk-management/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dependency and risk management

This is delivery risk: what could prevent this work from landing. Enterprise risk — the framework, appetite and register at company level — is legal-risk:enterprise-risk, and the two should not be merged.

Dependencies are commitments or they are wishes

A dependency in your plan that the owning team has not agreed to, with a date they have committed to, is a wish. Most plans contain several.

For each: what exactly is needed, from whom by name, by when, and what happens if it is late. Then confirm it with the owning team in a way they would recognize as a commitment — an item on their plan, not a mention in a meeting.

Track dependencies both ways. Teams reliably track what they are owed and forget what they owe, which is why everyone believes they are being let down.

The dangerous ones are transitive: your dependency has a dependency you cannot see. Trace at least one hop further than feels necessary, particularly where a shared specialist or a single team appears repeatedly.

A risk register people actually use

Most registers are written once for a gate and never opened. What makes one useful:

  • Specific. "Integration delay" is a topic. "Vendor's API v2 is not released until March; our migration starts in February" is a risk you can act on.
  • Sized on both axes — likelihood and impact — because the response differs entirely between a likely nuisance and an unlikely catastrophe.
  • Owned by someone who can act, not by the project manager who can only report.
  • Carrying a decision date — the point past which mitigation is no longer possible. This is the field most often omitted and the one that makes the register operational rather than decorative.

Review by exception: what changed, what is approaching its decision date. Reading the whole register aloud is how registers stop being read.

Mitigate, or accept explicitly

Four responses: avoid by changing the plan, reduce likelihood or impact, transfer to someone better placed to carry it, or accept. Acceptance is legitimate and must be explicit, with a named accepter — an unacknowledged acceptance is just an unmanaged risk.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 · 67 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a89cccacb656

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dependency-and-risk-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,320 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 697 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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