org-design

org-design is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from event4u-app/agent-config. It costs 42 tokens per session (2,537 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for designing team structures, including functional teams, squads, reporting spans, and boundaries between groups.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for deciding how to split teams, absorb a new product or region, and improve collaboration around technical or organizational bottlenecks.
Why use it?
It helps explain why work is slowed by handoffs, waiting decisions, or too many dependencies, and weighs the costs of a reorganization.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for deciding how to split teams, absorb a new product or region, and improve collaboration around technical or organizational bottlenecks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/event4u-app/agent-config/org-design
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Any agent
npx skills add event4u-app/agent-config --skill org-design
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 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,537 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00042 $0.02537
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01269
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00254

Measured 8d ago against content hash 74959cbc577b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

org-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 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/org-design/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

org-design

When to use

  • Team shape is becoming a bottleneck — handoffs are slow, decisions stall, the same conversations repeat across teams — and the question is what structure unblocks.
  • A reorg is being proposed (often for a different stated reason) and the question is what does this actually buy and what does it cost.
  • A new product line, segment, or geography is being added and the question is fold it into existing teams vs spin a new team vs embed people across teams.

Do NOT use as a hiring-plan substitute (route to forthcoming hiring-loop / comp skills for headcount and band shape), as a performance / individual-feedback surface (route to Q4 perf-feedback-craft), or for org-chart software / HRIS configuration.

Cognition cluster

  • Mental model — Theory of constraints. Org bottlenecks live in one or two places at a time; reorging everywhere else is theatre. Find the constraint (decision queue, dependency hub, single-threaded role), reshape around it, leave the rest. See mental-models.md.
  • Mental model — Conway's law. Systems mirror the communication structure that shipped them. If two services must integrate cleanly, the two teams must communicate cleanly. Org boundary = future architecture boundary. Use the inverse: pick the architecture you want, then draw the org to match.
  • Mental model 28 — Inversion. "What problem does the proposed structure prevent us from solving?" Every structure trades one class of problem for another. The honest question is which trade is acceptable, not which structure is best.
  • Mental model 26 — Optionality. Reorgs cost 3–6 months of throughput; the reorg is worth it only if the new shape preserves more optionality than the old shape forecloses. Reorging for short-term symptoms usually destroys optionality.
  • Context-spine — org-stage + product + customer-segment. Read org-stage for which problems are real (10-person co: structure barely matters; 50-person co: functional silos start; 150-person co: span-of-control breaks; 500+: Conway dominates). Read product for natural boundaries (modular product = squads work; tightly-coupled product = functional teams work better). Read customer-segment for whether segment-aligned teams pay off.

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 lines

Changes

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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 · 167 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 74959cbc577b

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org-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository event4u-app/agent-config (10 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,537 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 2026-09-04.