apply-trust-building

apply-trust-building is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,332 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A management practice for building trust through follow-through, honesty, fairness, and appropriate openness.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a manager is new to a team, repairing damaged trust, or deliberately strengthening working relationships.
Why use it?
It helps employees share problems, accept direction, and give feedback before issues grow.

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 when a manager is new to a team, repairing damaged trust, or deliberately strengthening working relationships.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/apply-trust-building
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill apply-trust-building
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 2,332 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 $0.02332
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01166
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00233

Measured 6d ago against content hash 014d0a8e0357, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apply-trust-building 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.

skills/business/leadership/skills/apply-trust-building/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apply Trust-Building

Establish and sustain the trust foundation of your management relationships through consistent behavior across four dimensions: follow-through, candor, fairness, and vulnerability — because trust is what makes feedback land, direction be followed, and problems surface before they become crises.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Stephen Covey's "Speed of Trust" framework is used in leadership development at FranklinCovey (40,000+ organizations globally) and is required reading in management programs at multiple business schools; Brené Brown's "Dare to Lead" trust research (BRAVING inventory) is widely used in organizational leadership training and was cited by 86% of Fortune 100 CHROs in a 2021 survey as influencing their leadership development programs; Edmondson's "Fearless Organization" research documents specific manager behaviors that build or destroy trust in team settings across 150+ organizations Impact: Gallup's 2022 engagement meta-analysis found that employee trust in their manager is the single highest correlation with engagement — higher than compensation, benefits, or role fit; PricewaterhouseCoopers' "Global Trust Study" (2023, 4,000 workers, 15 countries) found that 60% of employees do not trust their employer — and that trust was determined almost entirely by their direct manager's behavior, not organizational policy; Edelman's Trust Barometer (2023) found that "my employer" was trusted more than any other institution — but individual manager relationships determined whether that organizational trust was experienced daily Why best: Trust is not a personality trait — it is a behavioral output produced by consistent action over time across specific dimensions; a manager who is likable, well-intentioned, and technically excellent but who fails to follow through on commitments, withholds difficult truths, or applies inconsistent standards will not be trusted regardless of their intentions; understanding trust as a set of observable behaviors makes it learnable, improvable, and repairable

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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 · 136 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 014d0a8e0357

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apply-trust-building is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,332 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.