situational-leadership

situational-leadership is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (2,496 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A management framework that matches the amount of direction and independence given to a person with their ability and commitment for a specific task. The four approaches are directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding how closely to supervise, coach, support, or delegate to a new hire, struggling teammate, or disengaged high performer. It applies to individual tasks rather than fixed personality types.
Why use it?
It helps explain why the same management style can overwhelm a new worker or frustrate an experienced one. Managers can adjust their support as the person's skills and confidence change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when deciding how closely to supervise, coach, support, or delegate to a new hire, struggling teammate, or disengaged high performer. It applies to individual tasks rather than fixed personality types.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/situational-leadership
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 deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill situational-leadership
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,496 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 $0.00121 $0.02496
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01248
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00250

Measured 9d ago against content hash cb6db9533561, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

situational-leadership 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 9d 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.

situational-leadership/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Situational Leadership

Overview

Match your leadership style to each person's development level on each specific task — cycling through four styles (Directing, Coaching, Supporting, Delegating) as competence and commitment evolve. Introduced by Hersey & Blanchard (1969); formalized as SLII by Blanchard, Zigarmi & Zigarmi (1985).

Core diagnostic: instead of "what kind of leader should I be?" ask "what does this person need from me on this task right now?" Failure to update style as the person grows is the most common cause of high performers disengaging.

Composes with: kotter-change for org-level transformation (Kotter = org sequence; this = each individual relationship); principal-agent to rule out incentive problems first; okr-goal-setting to set goals (OKR) then govern how to support each person toward them.

When to Use

  • A manager-report relationship has friction or underperformance and root cause is undiagnosed
  • A high performer is disengaging ("I'm being micromanaged", "no room to grow") — signature of D4 receiving S1
  • A new hire or person in a new role is struggling despite effort — signature of D1/D2 receiving insufficient structure
  • A task or technology change resets development levels for experienced people
  • AI adoption resets who's the expert — after rolling out AI coding tools / AI-native workflows amid the 2024–2026 AI capex race, a senior person is D1/D2 on the new tool even while D4 on the core work
  • You are making a delegation decision for a specific person on a specific task

When NOT to use: incentive misalignment (principal-agent problem); acute crisis requiring uniform command; task is too vague to name (diagnosis requires a specific task).

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: user has a specific person and task → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: user is unfamiliar or asks "what is situational leadership?" → guide step by step.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 125 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A cb6db9533561

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situational-leadership is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 2,496 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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