service-desk

service-desk is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,100 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of practices for running an IT service desk, where people report problems or request help. It covers intake, triage, priority, escalation, knowledge, and service measurements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design ticket intake, separate incidents from requests, set priorities, define escalation rules, build a knowledge base, and choose useful support metrics.
Why use it?
It prevents urgent outages from being buried under routine requests and makes support work visible, consistent, and easier to improve.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the it-operations plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to design ticket intake, separate incidents from requests, set priorities, define escalation rules, build a knowledge base, and choose useful support metrics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/service-desk
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 service-desk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,100 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 $0.00073 $0.01100
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00550
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00220
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00110

Measured 4d ago against content hash e5d9aa9e5e6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

service-desk 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 4d 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/it-operations/skills/service-desk/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Service desk

The service desk is where the whole IT organization is judged, usually by people having a bad day. Most of what makes it good is intake discipline and honest measurement.

Intake determines everything downstream

Capture enough at first contact to route correctly and act without a second exchange: who, what they were doing, what happened, what they expected, and how blocked they are.

Give the requester a single channel that works. Multiple half-supported channels — a queue, a chat, a shoulder tap, a manager's direct message — mean the loudest request wins rather than the most urgent, and the desk's workload becomes unmeasurable because most of it is invisible.

Priority is impact against urgency

Priority is not a feeling. Define it on two axes — how many people are affected and how blocked they are — and publish the matrix so it can be applied consistently rather than argued each time.

Keep incidents (something broken) separate from requests (something wanted). They have different clocks, different queues, and different success conditions, and merging them lets routine requests bury outages.

Escalation should be time-based and automatic. Relying on someone to notice a ticket aging means the tickets that age are the ones nobody is watching.

Measure service, not activity

Tickets closed measures activity, and optimizing it produces premature closure and reopened tickets. Better:

  • First-contact resolution — resolved without a handoff.
  • Time to resolution at the percentile users feel, not the mean.
  • Reopen rate — the direct check on premature closure.
  • Repeat contacts for the same underlying cause — the number that points at problems worth eliminating.

Never target an individual on volume. It reliably produces cherry-picking of easy tickets and quiet avoidance of hard ones.

Eliminate demand rather than absorbing it

A desk that handles the same failure two hundred times has done two hundred units of work and solved nothing. Cluster tickets by underlying cause and feed the top few into permanent fixes — a configuration change, a fix at source, or self-service that genuinely resolves.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 4d ago First seen · 102 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A e5d9aa9e5e6e

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service-desk is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,320 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,100 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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