high-output-management

high-output-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DamiMartinez/book-skills. It costs 195 tokens per session (1,390 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A management framework based on Andrew S. Grove’s book *High Output Management*. It focuses on improving the results of a team and the neighboring teams a manager influences.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for handling management, delegation, meeting, planning, hiring, onboarding, and organizational-process questions.
Why use it?
It provides a way to reason about delegation, meetings, planning, decisions, and management time in terms of their effect on team output.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for handling management, delegation, meeting, planning, hiring, onboarding, and organizational-process questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/damimartinez/book-skills/high-output-management
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add DamiMartinez/book-skills --skill high-output-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DamiMartinez/book-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 195 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,390 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 $0.00195 $0.01390
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.00695
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00139

Measured 11d ago against content hash d7adfe73e9a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

high-output-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 11d 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.

skills/high-output-management/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

High Output Management

Apply this skill to reframe management, delegation, meeting, and planning problems around Andrew Grove's central idea: a manager's output is not their own personal output, but the output of their organization plus the output of the neighboring organizations they influence. Every management activity should be judged by whether it raises that output.

Core concepts

Managerial output & leverage — A manager's output = the output of their team + the output of adjacent teams under their influence. Managerial leverage is the ratio of that output to the manager's own time/effort invested. High-leverage activities: things that affect many people for a long time (training, a well-run meeting that improves how a team works, a decision that shapes future decisions). When evaluating how a manager should spend time, ask which activities have the highest leverage, not which feel most productive.

Production-line thinking — Model any process (including "soft" work like hiring or onboarding) like Grove's breakfast factory: map the steps, find the limiting/bottleneck step, and add value as early in the process as possible (cheaper to catch a defect early than late). Useful for any repeated workflow the user wants to improve, not just literal manufacturing.

Indicators & monitoring, not control — Track a small set of measures that predict output before it fully materializes (leading indicators), paired with at least one counterbalancing measure so optimizing one doesn't quietly wreck another (e.g. speed + quality, output + customer satisfaction). Indicators exist to prompt corrective action, not to punish — the manager should still visit the actual place of work ("management by walking around") rather than trust numbers alone.

Task-relevant maturity (TRM) & delegation style — How directive vs. hands-off a manager should be with a given person depends on that person's maturity for that specific task (skill + experience + motivation on it), not their seniority in general. Low TRM → more structured, closer supervision; high TRM → delegate and get out of the way. Monitor delegated work without taking it back — Grove distinguishes monitoring (checking output/process) from meddling (redoing the work yourself).

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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. 11d ago First seen · 45 lines · 195 tokens per session scan A d7adfe73e9a0

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high-output-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository DamiMartinez/book-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 195 tokens to every session and 1,390 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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