program-management

program-management is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 68 tokens per session (560 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for managing initiatives that involve several teams, with shared outcomes, dependencies, risks, status updates, and escalations.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps run multi-team programs, map dependencies, sequence work by risk, report status, manage integration slack, and recover slipping initiatives.
Why use it?
It addresses the handoffs where teams depend on one another and plans often stall. It makes ownership, commitments, decisions, and needed unblocking explicit.

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 It helps run multi-team programs, map dependencies, sequence work by risk, report status, manage integration slack, and recover slipping initiatives.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/program-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 · 1,300 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 program-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 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 560 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 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 $0.00068 $0.00560
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00280
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00056

Measured 3d ago against content hash 72e42905a981, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

program-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 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/program-management/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Program management

Programs fail at the seams between teams, not inside them. The job is the seams.

Set up

  • One outcome, stated as a business result with a date. Programs with several equal objectives have none.
  • A named accountable owner — one person, not a committee. The program manager drives; the owner decides.
  • Scope written as inclusions and exclusions. The exclusions do the work; unwritten exclusions return as assumptions.
  • Dependencies mapped and agreed by the teams that owe them, with dates they have actually committed to. A dependency in your plan that the owning team has not agreed to is a wish.

Sequencing

Order by dependency and risk, not by team convenience. Front-load the things that could invalidate the plan — the technical unknown, the vendor decision, the approval that might not come. Discovering in month four that the plan was impossible is the characteristic program failure.

Build in slack at integration points, not at the end. End-loaded buffer gets consumed early and silently.

Status that is worth reading

Three things, every time: are we on track for the date, what changed since last time, and what decision or unblock is needed. Everything else is appendix.

Track status against committed dates, not effort. "80% complete" is not information; "the integration is done, the migration starts Monday, the sign-off is the risk" is.

Escalate early and specifically. An escalation naming the decision needed and the date it is needed by gets resolved; a general statement of concern gets acknowledged and nothing happens.

When it slips

Establish whether it is a scope problem, a capacity problem, or a dependency problem — the remedies are entirely different and applying the wrong one makes it worse.

Then present options with consequences: cut scope (name what), extend (say by how much and what else is affected), or add capacity (which rarely helps late, and often hurts).

Re-baseline once, visibly, rather than slipping a week at a time. Serial small slips destroy credibility far faster than one honest reset.

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 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 · 57 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 72e42905a981

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program-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,300 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 560 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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