apply-extreme-ownership

apply-extreme-ownership is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,808 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A leadership principle that treats the leader as responsible for team outcomes, including failures caused by team members.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review poor results, identify leadership causes, and decide what to change in how a team is led.
Why use it?
It shifts attention from blaming individuals to improving leadership through clearer direction, training, priorities, or team choices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the grimoire-business plugin — 145 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review poor results, identify leadership causes, and decide what to change in how a team is led.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-extreme-ownership
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-extreme-ownership
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-core

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grimoire-business, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 145 skills.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,808 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.
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 $0.00049 $0.01808
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00904
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00362
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00181

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3a587af74f61, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-extreme-ownership 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 8d 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.

skills/business/leadership/skills/apply-extreme-ownership/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Extreme Ownership

Accept full responsibility for all outcomes in your domain — including failures caused by your team members — by treating every shortfall as a failure of your leadership (inadequate training, unclear direction, wrong priorities, poor selection) rather than a failure of the individual, and acting on that attribution.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Core methodology of US Navy SEAL leadership training; the approach was developed and tested across multiple combat deployments before being formalized by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin in "Extreme Ownership" (2015, over 1M copies sold). Echelon Front (Willink and Babin's leadership consulting firm) has trained Fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Fidelity, and Cargill. Widely taught in military officer development programs (US Marine Corps officer training explicitly covers the "no bad teams, only bad leaders" principle). Andy Grove applied a similar ownership framework at Intel, documented in "High Output Management" (1983). Impact: Ng, Sorensen & Eby (2006) Journal of Organizational Behavior — meta-analysis of 135 studies: leaders with internal locus of control (who attribute outcomes to their own actions rather than external factors) produce significantly better team performance, higher subordinate motivation, lower turnover, and higher engagement. Cohen's d = 0.34 across performance outcomes. Bandura (1997) self-efficacy research: leaders who model ownership behavior increase team self-efficacy and accountability behaviors in subordinates through observational learning — the leader's attribution behavior becomes the team's attribution behavior. Military data: SEAL platoons led by ownership-oriented leaders consistently outperformed technically superior platoons led by blame-oriented leaders across evaluated missions. Why best: The alternative — attributing team failures to team members — is the default human response and produces a predictable dysfunctional loop: leader assigns blame → team member becomes defensive → root cause is not examined → same failure recurs. Extreme ownership breaks this loop by forcing the leader to examine their own decisions: Did I train them properly? Did I give clear direction? Did I set the right priorities? Did I select the right person for this task? These questions have actionable answers. "The team member failed" has no actionable answer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 8d ago First seen · 117 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 3a587af74f61

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apply-extreme-ownership is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,808 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.