comp-banding

comp-banding is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 44 tokens per session (2,779 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing employee pay levels and salary ranges, including the balance between cash and equity. It also covers decisions such as promotions, retention offers, market corrections, and location changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape or refresh compensation bands, assess promotion or counter-offer decisions, adjust pay for location, or respond to funding and company-growth changes.
Why use it?
It helps separate the reason for a pay decision from the specific pay tool used. This reduces confusion between rewarding current work, sharing future company value, and paying for results.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to shape or refresh compensation bands, assess promotion or counter-offer decisions, adjust pay for location, or respond to funding and company-growth changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/event4u-app/agent-config/comp-banding
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill comp-banding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/event4u-app/agent-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,779 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 $0.00044 $0.02779
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.01389
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00278

Measured 9d ago against content hash 09b1ad2edc42, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comp-banding 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.

src/skills/comp-banding/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

comp-banding

When to use

  • Levels and comp bands need a first pass (or an annual refresh) and the question is what shape the ladder takes, where the bands sit, and how cash / equity trade.
  • A specific compensation decision crosses the desk (counter-offer, retention, market correction, promotion, geo move) and the question is which lever is the right one.
  • A funding event, geo expansion, or org-stage transition makes the existing comp shape misfit reality.

Do NOT use as a payroll / equity-administration substitute (this skill produces the cognition; payroll / cap-table tools implement), as an individual-performance review (route to Q4 perf-feedback-craft), or for hiring-loop / sourcing design (separate skill area).

Cognition cluster

  • Mental model 1 — First principles. Strip every comp question to: what behavior are we paying for, over what horizon, with what risk-bearing? Cash pays for present effort; equity pays for future co-built value with risk; bonus pays for outcome-linked behavior. Mixing the levers without first-principles intent produces confusion. See mental-models.md § 1.
  • Mental model 28 — Inversion. "What comp shape would force our best people to leave?" Inversion surfaces the load-bearing risks (condensation at senior levels, equity refresh gaps, geo arbitrage that punishes loyalty).
  • Mental model 26 — Optionality. Each comp lever preserves or forecloses future options. Above-band offers preserve hire optionality but foreclose internal-equity optionality. Equity-heavy mix preserves cash runway but forecloses people who need liquidity. Read every move as an optionality trade.
  • Mental model 21 — Second-order thinking. A raise to one person ripples (perceived parity, retention pressure on peers, expectation-setting for next cycle). A band shift ripples (new-hire offers anchor higher, internal expectations re-anchor). Comp moves rarely stay isolated.
  • Context-spine — org-stage + customer-segment + regulatory-regime. Read org-stage for what's affordable and credible (pre-seed: cash-light, equity-heavy; growth: cash-competitive at 50th–75th; late: cash-led, equity less load-bearing). Read customer-segment for which talent pool we compete in (enterprise sales needs enterprise pay shape). Read regulatory-regime for pay-transparency / disclosure obligations (EU directive, CA / CO / NY state laws).

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 9d ago First seen · 169 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 09b1ad2edc42

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comp-banding is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 2,779 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 2026-08-31.

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