shamrock-organisation

shamrock-organisation is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,825 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workforce-planning model that divides an organisation into a professional core, contracted specialists, and flexible workers. It is known as Handy's Shamrock Organisation because these three groups are represented as leaves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning early hires, deciding whether to outsource work, structuring teams, and reviewing the balance between permanent and non-permanent roles.
Why use it?
It helps clarify which work should stay in-house and which work may be contracted or arranged flexibly, while considering cost, knowledge, and adaptability.

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 when planning early hires, deciding whether to outsource work, structuring teams, and reviewing the balance between permanent and non-permanent roles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/shamrock-organisation
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 shamrock-organisation
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 2,825 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 $0.02825
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01412
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00282

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6a71204863b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shamrock-organisation 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/shamrock-organisation/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 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.

The Shamrock Organisation

By 2030, the majority of the global workforce will not hold traditional full-time employment. This is not speculation -- it is the arithmetic consequence of trends already visible in labour statistics across every developed economy. Charles Handy saw it coming in 1989. His model of the Shamrock Organisation, articulated in The Age of Unreason, described a workforce structure built on three distinct leaves: a professional core, an outsourced contractual fringe, and a flexible labour force. What seemed provocative in the late twentieth century now reads as operational reality for any startup that has ever hired a freelance designer, contracted a development agency, or employed gig workers for delivery logistics.

The framework matters for entrepreneurs not as theory but as architecture. How you compose your workforce determines your cost structure, your agility, your culture, and ultimately your capacity to scale. Get the shamrock wrong, and you either bloat with fixed costs or hollow out the capabilities that make your company distinctive.


The Framework

Leaf One: The Professional Core

These are the indispensable people -- the ones who carry the organisation's institutional knowledge, strategic direction, and proprietary capability. They are expensive, difficult to replace, and worth every unit of compensation.

Characteristics:

  • Full-time, salaried, deeply embedded in company culture
  • Possess knowledge that cannot be easily codified or transferred
  • Their departure would create genuine strategic damage
  • Compensated through salary, equity, career development, and purpose

The entrepreneur's question: Which roles, if vacated tomorrow, would threaten the company's survival or competitive advantage? Those belong in the core. Everything else is a candidate for the other two leaves.

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 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 First seen · 195 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 6a71204863b2

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shamrock-organisation is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,825 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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