belbin-team-roles

belbin-team-roles is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 87 tokens per session (3,207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for understanding the different contributions people can make in a team.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss team strengths, assign responsibilities, and improve collaboration.
Why use it?
It helps explain gaps, overlaps, and imbalances in how a team works.

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 to discuss team strengths, assign responsibilities, and improve collaboration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/belbin-team-roles
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill belbin-team-roles
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.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,207 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 $0.00087 $0.03207
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01604
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00641
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00321

Measured 6d ago against content hash d1d4427a2a2c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

belbin-team-roles 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 6d 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/belbin-team-roles/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 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.

Belbin Team Roles

In 2004, the United States assembled a basketball team for the Athens Olympics that included LeBron James, Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson, and Carmelo Anthony -- arguable the most talented collection of individual players ever put on a court together. They lost three games and settled for bronze. Eight years later, a Spanish national team with no single player approaching that caliber won silver and pushed the Americans to the limit. The pattern repeats across every team sport, every corporate acquisition of "star" talent, and every startup that hires exclusively from elite pedigrees: assembling the best individuals does not produce the best team.

Meredith Belbin spent nine years at Henley Management College studying why some teams of brilliant people underperformed while other teams of average individuals consistently excelled. His research, published in Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail (1981), produced a taxonomy of nine team roles -- behavioral patterns that individuals adopt in group settings -- and a principle that has survived four decades of scrutiny: balanced teams outperform unbalanced teams, regardless of the individual talent level within them.


The Framework

Belbin's nine roles cluster into three categories: Thinking roles, Action roles, and People roles. Each role contributes a specific strength and carries an "allowable weakness" -- a predictable downside that is the shadow of the strength. Effective teams do not eliminate weaknesses; they ensure that every weakness is compensated by another role's strength.

Thinking Roles

Plant (PL)

  • Contribution: Creative, imaginative, unorthodox. Generates novel ideas and solves difficult problems.
  • Allowable weakness: Ignores practical details. May be too absorbed in ideas to communicate effectively.
  • Startup translation: The visionary co-founder who sees possibilities no one else does -- and forgets to check whether the technology exists to build them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 6d ago Changed · +199 lines · +87 tokens per session d1d4427a2a2c
  2. 12d ago First seen · 1 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 48b9aecd5eaf

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belbin-team-roles is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 3,207 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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