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.
npx skills add cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill organizational-designgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/organizational-design)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/organizational-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/organizational-design/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/organizational-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/organizational-design.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00043 | $0.00674 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00337 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00135 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00067 |
Grade A, and why
organizational-design 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Organizational Design
Help the user design effective organizational structures using frameworks from 2 product leaders.
How to Help
When the user asks for help with organizational design:
- Understand their context - Ask about their current structure, company stage, what problem they're trying to solve, and what trade-offs they're willing to make
- Identify the core trade-off - Help them see the spectrum between centralized (Apple-style) and decentralized (Amazon-style) models
- Evaluate options - Walk through the implications of different structures for speed, coherence, and cross-team dependencies
- Guide implementation - Help them think through how to transition to a new structure
Core Principles
The fundamental trade-off: speed vs. coherence
Gustav Soderström: "On one spectrum, you have Amazon - minimize dependencies so you can run in parallel. On the other, you have Apple - centrally organized close to a single individual." Amazon optimizes for speed through autonomous teams with minimal dependencies. Apple optimizes for coherent user experience through central coordination. Neither is universally better - choose based on what matters most for your product.
Functional models can restore startup speed
Brian Chesky: "We went to a functional model. We went back to a startup." Airbnb eliminated divisional structures and management layers that separated leaders from the work. Functional models concentrate expertise and reduce the "telephone game" between executives and ICs.
Eliminate managers who don't know the work
Brian Chesky's restructuring removed "people managers" who couldn't do the work themselves. Leaders should have enough context to make decisions, not just manage reports. If a manager can't review the actual output, the structure is broken.
Structure follows strategy
The right org structure depends on what you're optimizing for. If you need rapid, parallel execution on independent initiatives: decentralize. If you need a tightly integrated product experience: centralize.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 58 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 85bcc8d4b336
organizational-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 674 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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