apply-situational-leadership

apply-situational-leadership is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,118 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A management approach that adjusts the amount of direction and support given for a specific task based on the employee’s development level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose between directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating when managing individual tasks.
Why use it?
It avoids over-managing experienced employees and leaving developing employees without enough help.

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 choose between directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating when managing individual tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-situational-leadership
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-situational-leadership
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 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,118 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 $0.00052 $0.02118
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01059
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00424
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00212

Measured 9d ago against content hash f8479377d4df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-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 9d 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-situational-leadership/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Situational Leadership

Diagnose a direct report's development level on a specific task, then match your management style — directing, coaching, supporting, or delegating — to that level.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Blanchard's Situational Leadership II model is licensed to 70%+ of Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Bank of America, Pfizer, and Lockheed Martin; the model is the foundation of manager training at the US Military's leadership development programs (Officer Candidate School, West Point's leadership curriculum); it has trained 15M+ managers globally across 50+ years of organizational application Impact: Blanchard Institute longitudinal studies (Organizations of Learning, 2018) show managers who apply matched leadership style see 17% lower turnover and 21% higher productivity compared to managers who apply a uniform style; the model directly explains the two most common and costly management failure modes: (1) over-directing high performers who then disengage and quit, and (2) under-supporting developing employees who fail tasks they were not yet ready for and lose confidence Why best: Trait-based leadership advice ("be more empathetic", "be decisive") provides no actionable guidance for a specific situation with a specific person on a specific task; the blanket "give people autonomy" advice fails catastrophically for D1 employees (enthusiastic beginners) who need structure; SLII gives a diagnostic framework that maps directly to a prescribed style per task per person, producing consistent outcomes rather than manager intuition

Sources: Blanchard & Hersey "Management of Organizational Behavior" (Pearson, 11th ed. 2012); Blanchard Companies "Leading at a Higher Level" (3rd ed. 2018); Harvard Business Review "How to Give a High Performer More to Do" (2012); US Army Leader Development Strategy (2013)

Steps

1. Define the task specifically

Situational Leadership applies per task, not to a person's overall performance. A senior engineer (D4 on backend architecture) may be an enthusiastic beginner (D1) when promoted to engineering manager for the first time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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. 9d ago First seen · 115 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A f8479377d4df

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apply-situational-leadership is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,118 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.