ambidexterity

ambidexterity is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 95 tokens per session (2,836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for managing two needs at once: improving today’s work while also preparing for future opportunities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for organisational planning, balancing short-term delivery with future development, and discussing competing priorities.
Why use it?
It helps avoid focusing so heavily on current operations that longer-term change and innovation are neglected.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it for organisational planning, balancing short-term delivery with future development, and discussing competing priorities.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/ambidexterity
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 fatihguner/foreman --skill ambidexterity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ambidexterity

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fatihguner/foreman/ambidexterity/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fatihguner/foreman/ambidexterity)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fatihguner/foreman/ambidexterity"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fatihguner/foreman/ambidexterity/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ambidexterity

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fatihguner/foreman/ambidexterity"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fatihguner/foreman/ambidexterity.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,836 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 $0.00095 $0.02836
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01418
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00567
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00284

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6cb865938a0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ambidexterity 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 4d 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.

plugins/foreman/skills/ambidexterity/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Organizational Ambidexterity

Consider what it means to be physically ambidextrous: the ability to write fluently with both hands, each performing distinct tasks without compromising the other. Most people cannot do it. Most organizations cannot do it either -- and the organizational version is far more consequential. Ambidexterity in a corporate context means simultaneously excelling at exploiting existing capabilities for current profit and exploring new opportunities for future growth. The concept, formalized by scholars Charles O'Reilly and Michael Tushman, addresses perhaps the deepest tension in business strategy: how to be disciplined and creative at the same time, in the same company, without one impulse strangling the other.

The reason this matters is not abstract. The business landscape is littered with companies that mastered exploitation -- Kodak, Blockbuster, Nokia -- and failed catastrophically because they could not explore. Conversely, companies that explore without exploiting burn cash with no viable business model underneath. Ambidexterity is the structural answer to this dilemma.


The Framework

Exploitation vs. Exploration

The terms originate from James March's seminal 1991 paper and form the conceptual backbone of ambidexterity theory.

Exploitation is the refinement, efficiency, and optimization of existing products, processes, and customers. It produces near-term revenue, measurable results, and incremental improvement. It feels safe because the feedback loops are tight.

Exploration is the search for new markets, technologies, and business models. It produces long-term growth potential but involves uncertainty, failure, and delayed returns. It feels risky because the feedback loops are loose and ambiguous.

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 4d ago Changed · +181 lines · +95 tokens per session 6cb865938a0c
  2. 10d ago First seen · 1 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 817abf203e9a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ambidexterity is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 2,836 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories