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npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-distributed-team-practicesgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-coreWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00051 | $0.02057 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.01028 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00411 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00206 |
Grade A, and why
apply-distributed-team-practices 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Apply Distributed Team Practices
Adapt your management approach for distributed or hybrid teams — making information accessible asynchronously, relationships intentional, and participation equitable regardless of location.
Why This Is Best Practice
Adopted by: GitLab (1,500+ employees, fully remote since 2011) publishes the most comprehensive remote work playbook in the industry; Automattic (WordPress parent, fully remote since 2005) has a documented no-office culture; Shopify, Airbnb, and Spotify operate distributed models; Microsoft WorkLab's "The New Future of Work" (2022, 20k+ participants) is the largest ongoing research program on hybrid work effectiveness Impact: Microsoft WorkLab (2022) found that in hybrid teams without deliberate inclusion practices, remote employees are 22% less likely to be included in meetings, 26% less likely to receive real-time feedback, and have 2× the risk of "proximity bias" — being passed over for promotions in favor of visible in-office peers; GitLab's internal research shows async-first teams complete projects 40% faster than teams relying on synchronous-only communication, primarily by eliminating scheduling friction; Stanford research (Bloom, 2022) found remote workers are 13–18% more productive on individual tasks but 30% less productive on collaboration without deliberate structure Why best: Managing a distributed team with in-office management practices produces two failure modes: (1) information asymmetry — remote members miss hallway conversations, social context, and informal decisions; (2) proximity bias — in-office members are more visible, more likely to be recognized, and more likely to be promoted; applying distributed practices deliberately counteracts both without requiring everyone to be co-located
Sources: GitLab "The Remote Playbook" (about.gitlab.com/handbook/); Microsoft WorkLab "The New Future of Work" (2022); Bloom "How Working From Home Works Out" (Stanford, 2022); Larson et al. "A Primer on Making Hybrid Work" (McKinsey, 2021)
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 127 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 4cee27b308d1
apply-distributed-team-practices is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,057 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.
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