one-on-one-cadence

one-on-one-cadence is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,854 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for structuring regular one-on-one conversations between engineering managers and their reports.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for choosing meeting cadence and agendas, repairing weak one-on-ones, and managing them as teams grow.
Why use it?
It prevents these meetings from becoming status updates, being repeatedly cancelled, or losing space for growth, blockers, and trust.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for choosing meeting cadence and agendas, repairing weak one-on-ones, and managing them as teams grow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/event4u-app/agent-config/one-on-one-cadence
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill one-on-one-cadence
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 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,854 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 $0.00062 $0.02854
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01427
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00571
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00285

Measured 8d ago against content hash a37ead119b43, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

one-on-one-cadence 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 8d 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/one-on-one-cadence/SKILL.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

one-on-one-cadence

When to use

  • An engineering manager is setting up 1:1s with their team for the first time, or after a reorg / role change, and the question is cadence, length, and agenda shape.
  • 1:1s exist but are degrading — getting cancelled, devolving into status updates, becoming uncomfortable — and the question is what's broken and how to repair.
  • A team is scaling and 1:1 capacity is starting to bind (skip-levels, growing reports) and the question is what to keep, what to delegate, what to drop.

Do NOT use this for non-engineering teams as the primary lens (Q4 perf-feedback-craft is the generalist surface; this skill specializes for the engineering context per the EM persona), as a comp-decision channel (route to Q2 comp-banding), or for 1:1-tooling-platform configuration.

Cognition cluster

  • Mental model 1 — First principles. Strip the 1:1 to: what conversation can only happen between this manager and this report, that wouldn't happen anywhere else? If the answer is "status that fits in standup", the 1:1 is mis-shaped. See mental-models.md § 1.
  • Mental model 21 — Second-order thinking. A cancelled 1:1 signals more than a missed conversation. Two consecutive cancellations from the manager side recalibrate the report's read of priority for months. Cancellation has compounding cost; protect the slot.
  • Mental model 28 — Inversion. "What 1:1 shape would make this report stop bringing up real problems?" — usually: pure status-update format, manager-talks-most, no growth dimension, recurring cancellation, public location. Inversion surfaces the 5 canonical failure modes.
  • Mental model — Theory of constraints. In a manager's week, 1:1 time is the binding constraint on people-leverage. Reducing per-1:1 time below 30 minutes for direct reports usually starves the channel; protecting 30–45 minutes weekly is the canonical default.
  • Context-spine — org-stage + product + customer-segment. Read org-stage for what 1:1 infrastructure exists (10-person co: 1:1 is core; 50-person: standard; 150+: skip-levels matter). Read product for what topics surface (deep-tech = more growth; high-velocity = more blocker). Read customer-segment for stakeholder-load shape (enterprise = stakeholder management surfaces in 1:1s).

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 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. 8d ago First seen · 170 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a37ead119b43

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one-on-one-cadence is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,854 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.