support-operations

support-operations is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 77 tokens per session (829 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A support-operations skill for designing and running customer help systems. It covers support channels, queues, routing, staffing, response targets, quality, and performance measures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up or repair support operations, choose channels, size a team, set service levels, reduce contact costs, or investigate long queues and poor service.
Why use it?
It helps find and prevent the causes of support requests before simply hiring more agents or answering faster. It also provides a way to decide which work should be removed, explained, automated, or handled by a person.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the customer-experience plugin — 5 skills shipped together

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/support-operations
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill support-operations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install customer-experience, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 829 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 $0.00077 $0.00829
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00083

Measured today against content hash 59a89e6b8bd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

support-operations 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 today.

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/customer-experience/skills/support-operations/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Support operations

Understand demand before designing supply

Categorize a real sample of recent contacts — a few hundred, read individually, not a report. Almost every support operation finds the same shape: a small number of causes generating most of the volume, and most of those are preventable rather than answerable.

That analysis decides everything downstream. Staffing to demand you have not examined means staffing to demand you could have eliminated.

The hierarchy of handling

In order of cost, cheapest first. Push volume up this list rather than getting faster at the bottom:

  1. Eliminate — fix the product defect or confusing flow generating the contact.
  2. Deflect — answer it in the interface at the moment of confusion, not in a help center nobody visits.
  3. Self-serve — findable documentation for people who go looking.
  4. Automate — genuine resolution of routine requests, not a bot that stalls people before a human.
  5. Assist — a person.

Most support improvement programs work on level 5 exclusively, because it is the visible one.

Channels

Pick by what the work needs, not by what is fashionable. Asynchronous channels are cheaper and better for anything requiring investigation. Synchronous channels are worth their cost for urgency, high-value accounts, and anything where a customer is stuck mid-task.

Every channel you open must be staffed to its expectation. An unstaffed live-chat widget is worse than no chat.

Service levels

Set by severity and customer tier, published internally, and — this is the part usually missing — checked against actual capacity before being promised. A commitment the staffing cannot meet is a commitment to fail visibly.

Measure first response and time to resolution separately. They have different causes: first response is a staffing problem, resolution is usually a product or escalation problem.

Metrics that mean something

  • Contacts per active customer, trending. The only metric that captures whether the product is getting better rather than the team getting faster.
  • First-contact resolution — reopens are the honest signal.
  • Backlog age distribution, not average age. Averages hide the tickets rotting at the back, and those are the ones that become complaints.
  • Customer-effort, asked at resolution.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. today Changed · +17 lines 59a89e6b8bd1
  2. 4d ago First seen · 71 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 1b4d91d82ddf

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support-operations is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,176 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 829 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 2026-08-30.

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