kaizen-bpr

kaizen-bpr is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 88 tokens per session (3,278 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process-improvement guide covering Kaizen, which makes small ongoing changes, and Business Process Reengineering, which redesigns a process from the ground up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess declining operational efficiency, compare improvement approaches, and choose between incremental process changes and a new process design.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether a struggling operation needs gradual refinement or a complete rebuild, instead of applying the same remedy to every problem.

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 assess declining operational efficiency, compare improvement approaches, and choose between incremental process changes and a new process design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/kaizen-bpr
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 kaizen-bpr
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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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,278 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 $0.00088 $0.03278
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01639
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00656
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00328

Measured 5d ago against content hash 4275f8aa56ba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kaizen-bpr 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 5d 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/kaizen-bpr/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 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.

Kaizen & Business Process Reengineering

Two philosophies of improvement emerged from opposite ends of the industrial world, and they could hardly be more different in temperament. From Japan: Kaizen -- the quiet, relentless discipline of making things a little better every day. From America: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) -- the dramatic act of tearing up existing processes and rebuilding them from scratch. One whispers. The other shouts. Toyota embodied the first; Michael Hammer and James Champy evangelised the second in their 1993 manifesto Reengineering the Corporation. The genius lies not in choosing between them but in understanding when each is appropriate -- and recognising that most organisations need both, applied at different times and to different problems.


The Framework

Kaizen: The Continuous Improvement Philosophy

Kaizen (Japanese: "change for better") is not a technique but a culture. Masaaki Imai introduced it to Western audiences in 1986, describing the management philosophy that powered Japan's post-war industrial ascent. The core principle is disarmingly simple: every process can be improved, every day, by the people who do the work.

Before Kaizen:

  • Improvement is a management responsibility
  • Changes come in large, infrequent projects
  • Workers execute; managers think
  • Defects are found at inspection
  • "Good enough" is the standard

After Kaizen:

  • Improvement is everyone's responsibility
  • Changes come in small, continuous increments
  • Workers observe, suggest, and implement improvements
  • Defects are prevented at the source
  • "Better than yesterday" is the standard

The Kaizen Cycle (PDCA):

  1. Plan -- Identify a specific, measurable improvement opportunity. Define the current state and the target state.
  2. Do -- Implement the change on a small scale. Treat it as an experiment, not a commitment.
  3. Check -- Measure the results. Did the change achieve the target? What unexpected effects emerged?
  4. Act -- If successful, standardise the new method. If not, analyse why and begin the cycle again.

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 5d ago First seen · 220 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 4275f8aa56ba

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kaizen-bpr is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 3,278 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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