maslow-hierarchy

maslow-hierarchy is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 79 tokens per session (3,980 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a model that groups human motivations from basic survival and safety through belonging, esteem, and personal fulfilment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to think about customer needs, product positioning, employee motivation, and retention.
Why use it?
It provides a way to examine why people may remain disengaged even when pay, safety, or product features are adequate.

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 think about customer needs, product positioning, employee motivation, and retention.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/maslow-hierarchy
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 maslow-hierarchy
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 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,980 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 $0.00079 $0.03980
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01990
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00796
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00398

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7ec9d1fd92b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maslow-hierarchy 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/maslow-hierarchy/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 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.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Turn the pyramid upside down. The most reproduced diagram in management education -- Abraham Maslow's five-level hierarchy, with physiological needs at the base and self-actualization at the apex -- has been drawn right-side-up so many times that people have stopped questioning it. Yet the most consequential insight for entrepreneurs sits at the top, not the bottom. Maslow's genius was not in observing that hungry people think about food. It was in arguing that once basic needs are met, human motivation does not plateau -- it transforms. The person whose survival is secure does not stop wanting; they start wanting differently. They want meaning, growth, purpose, and the realization of their potential. Companies that understand this build products people love and organizations people refuse to leave. Companies that do not understand this wonder why competitive salaries produce mediocre commitment and feature-rich products generate indifference.

Maslow published "A Theory of Human Motivation" in 1943. Eight decades later, the hierarchy remains one of the most cited and most debated frameworks in psychology and management. Its critics are numerous and not always wrong. But the core architecture -- that human needs exist in layers, that lower layers must be substantially satisfied before higher layers become primary motivators -- continues to explain behavior that purely rational models cannot.


The Framework

Maslow's hierarchy arranges human needs into five levels. The foundational claim is that needs at lower levels must be reasonably satisfied before needs at higher levels become dominant motivational forces. The framework is not a rigid staircase -- people can be motivated by multiple levels simultaneously -- but the general directional pull holds across cultures and contexts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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 First seen · 213 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 7ec9d1fd92b1

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maslow-hierarchy is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 3,980 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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