situational-leadership

situational-leadership is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 82 tokens per session (3,219 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A leadership model that matches how much direction and support a person receives to their competence and commitment for a particular task. Its four approaches are directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose how to manage a person on a specific task, diagnose disengagement, and decide when to give instructions, coaching, support, or autonomy.
Why use it?
It helps avoid using the same management style for everyone when people need different levels of guidance or independence.

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 choose how to manage a person on a specific task, diagnose disengagement, and decide when to give instructions, coaching, support, or autonomy.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/situational-leadership
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill situational-leadership
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 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,219 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 $0.00082 $0.03219
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.01610
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00644
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00322

Measured 6d ago against content hash e5677cc9044b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

situational-leadership 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/situational-leadership/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 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.

Situational Leadership

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he ran the company with iron-fisted directiveness -- killing product lines, overruling engineers, and making unilateral decisions that saved the company from bankruptcy. A decade later, leading the team that created the iPhone, the same Steve Jobs operated differently: setting the vision, then stepping back to let Jony Ive, Scott Forstall, and their teams execute with extraordinary autonomy. Same leader. Radically different style. The conventional explanation is that Jobs "mellowed." The more precise explanation is that he -- consciously or not -- matched his leadership approach to the situation. Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard formalized this instinct into Situational Leadership Theory, arguing that there is no single best leadership style. There is only the right style for this person, on this task, at this moment. Leaders who refuse to adapt do not fail because they are bad leaders. They fail because they are inflexible ones.


The Framework

Situational Leadership maps two variables against each other in a 2x2 matrix: the leader's behavior (task-oriented vs. relationship-oriented) and the follower's development level (competence vs. commitment). The result is four leadership styles, each appropriate for a specific combination of follower readiness.

The 2x2 Matrix

                        TASK BEHAVIOR (Directive)
                    Low                         High
                +-----------------+-------------------+
       High     |   S3:           |   S2:             |
                |   SUPPORTING    |   COACHING         |
  RELATIONSHIP  |                 |                    |
  BEHAVIOR      |  High rel,     |  High task,        |
  (Supportive)  |  Low task      |  High rel          |
                +-----------------+-------------------+
       Low      |   S4:           |   S1:             |
                |   DELEGATING    |   DIRECTING        |
                |                 |                    |
                |  Low rel,      |  High task,        |
                |  Low task      |  Low rel           |
                +-----------------+-------------------+

  Applied to follower development:

  D1 (Low competence, High commitment)  --> S1: DIRECTING
  D2 (Some competence, Low commitment)  --> S2: COACHING
  D3 (High competence, Variable commit) --> S3: SUPPORTING
  D4 (High competence, High commitment) --> S4: DELEGATING

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 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 · 184 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A e5677cc9044b

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situational-leadership is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 3,219 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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