giving-feedback

giving-feedback is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 80 tokens per session (3,137 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for giving specific feedback using Situation–Behaviour–Impact, or SBI: describe when something happened, what the person did, and the effect it had.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare difficult performance conversations, describe behaviour without guessing at motives, and turn feedback into concrete guidance.
Why use it?
It replaces vague praise or criticism with observations and consequences that the recipient can understand and act on.

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 prepare difficult performance conversations, describe behaviour without guessing at motives, and turn feedback into concrete guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/giving-feedback
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 giving-feedback
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 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,137 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 $0.00080 $0.03137
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01569
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00627
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00314

Measured 3d ago against content hash 6c6748f3e911, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

giving-feedback 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 3d 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/giving-feedback/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 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.

Giving Feedback

Here is an uncomfortable truth: most of the feedback you have given in your career has been useless. Not malicious, not even poorly intentioned -- simply useless. "Great job on that presentation" teaches nothing. "You need to be more strategic" is a Rorschach test, not guidance. "I'm disappointed in your performance this quarter" is an emotional discharge dressed as management. The receiver walks away knowing something happened but unable to extract a single actionable insight. Meanwhile, the giver checks "gave feedback" off their mental list and wonders why nothing changes.

The problem is structural, not motivational. Most people want to give good feedback. They simply lack a method. The Situation-Behaviour-Impact (SBI) model, developed by the Center for Creative Leadership, provides exactly that: a rigorous structure that strips feedback of vagueness, projection, and judgment while preserving its essential content. SBI does not make difficult conversations easy. It makes them effective.


The Framework

The SBI Model: Three Components

Effective feedback consists of three elements, delivered in sequence. Each element serves a specific function, and omitting any one of them degrades the feedback's utility.

S -- Situation

Anchor the feedback in a specific time, place, and context. This eliminates ambiguity and prevents the receiver from wondering "which time?" or "what do you mean?"

  • Weak: "In meetings, you tend to..."
  • Strong: "In yesterday's product review meeting, when we were discussing the Q2 roadmap..."

The situation establishes shared ground. Both parties can agree on when and where the event occurred.

B -- Behaviour

Describe the observable behaviour -- what the person did, not what you infer about their character, motivation, or intelligence. Behaviour is factual and disputable; interpretation is subjective and inflammatory.

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 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. 3d ago First seen · 201 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 6c6748f3e911

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giving-feedback is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (48 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 3,137 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 2026-09-06.

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