learning-and-development

learning-and-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 64 tokens per session (709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to building employee capability through skills-gap analysis, career frameworks, training, onboarding, and internal moves between roles.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whether to train or hire, design career ladders and onboarding, close capability gaps, and check whether training changes work behavior.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a real skill problem from obstacles such as missing time, poor processes, weak incentives, or absent feedback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the people plugin — 12 skills shipped together

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 · 1,247 stars · on GitHub

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/learning-and-development
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill learning-and-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 709 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00064 $0.00709
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured yesterday against content hash 2a02363239d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

learning-and-development 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 yesterday.

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/learning-and-development/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Learning and development

Training is the most reliably wasted budget in an organization, because attendance is easy to measure and transfer to the job is not.

Start from the capability gap

Training is a solution. Establish the problem first: what should people be able to do that they cannot, and is the cause actually capability?

Frequently it is not. If someone knows how but does not, look for the real obstacle — no time, a process that makes the right thing harder, an incentive pointing elsewhere, or no feedback on whether they did it correctly. Training a motivation or system problem changes nothing and consumes the budget that would have fixed it.

Design for transfer

Most of what people can actually do is learned by doing it, with feedback, on real work. Formal instruction is a small part and it decays quickly without application.

So: teach close to the moment of use, give people real work immediately afterwards, and arrange feedback from someone competent. A course two months before the work is entertainment.

Measure transfer, not satisfaction. Whether attendees enjoyed it is uncorrelated with whether they now do the job differently. Ask their manager at ninety days what changed.

Career frameworks

A framework answers what is expected at each level and what growth looks like. It carries weight far beyond development — it drives compensation bands, promotion decisions, and whether people believe progression is fair. It should be built with people:compensation-and-leveling, not separately.

Make it observable. Levels described by scope, autonomy and impact can be assessed; levels described by seniority adjectives cannot, and collapse into tenure.

Provide a path that is not management. Forcing the best practitioners into management to progress is how organizations lose their best practitioners and gain mediocre managers.

Internal mobility

Internal moves are usually cheaper and lower-risk than external hiring, and they are the main reason capable people stay. The obstacle is almost always managers hoarding talent, which is rational for the manager and expensive for the company.

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 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. yesterday First seen · 72 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 2a02363239d6

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learning-and-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 709 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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