build-psychological-safety

build-psychological-safety is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 52 tokens per session (2,469 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A team practice that helps people speak up, admit mistakes, ask questions, and disagree without fear of professional or social punishment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess or improve how safely team members can raise concerns and challenge assumptions.
Why use it?
It makes problems and mistakes visible earlier, allowing the team to learn and correct course.

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 assess or improve how safely team members can raise concerns and challenge assumptions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/build-psychological-safety
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill build-psychological-safety
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 2,469 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 $0.02469
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01234
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00247

Measured 8d ago against content hash 20d4277c7481, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

build-psychological-safety 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/build-psychological-safety/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build Psychological Safety

Create the conditions where every team member can speak up, admit mistakes, ask questions, and challenge assumptions without fear of professional or social consequences.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Google's Project Aristotle (2016) — a two-year study of 180 teams — identified psychological safety as the #1 predictor of team effectiveness, above technical skill, individual talent, or process; Amy Edmondson's research spans 30+ years and 1,000+ organizations across healthcare, aviation, finance, and technology; the framework has been adopted by Pixar (the Braintrust model), Bridgewater (radical transparency), and was central to NASA's post-Columbia accident inquiry into why engineers felt unable to raise known safety concerns Impact: Google Project Aristotle found that teams high in psychological safety were 17% more likely to perform in the top quartile, had 19% lower attrition, and generated 27% more revenue; Edmondson's original hospital study (Harvard, 1999) showed teams with high psychological safety reported 10× more medication errors — not because they made more errors, but because they felt safe reporting them; in high-risk industries (aviation, nuclear), the same pattern holds: low psychological safety suppresses reporting of near-misses, which is the primary mechanism through which major accidents are prevented Why best: "Open door" policies are passive — they signal availability but do not remove the interpersonal risk of speaking up; team-building activities build social cohesion but do not address fear of professional consequences; psychological safety requires active, visible leader behavior that models fallibility and explicitly rewards dissenting input — it cannot be declared or mandated, only cultivated through consistent behavior

Sources: Edmondson "The Fearless Organization" (Harvard Business School Press, 2018); Google re:Work "Guide: Understand Team Effectiveness" (2016, rework.withgoogle.com); Clark "The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety" (Berrett-Koehler, 2020); Edmondson "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams" (Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999)

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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 · 169 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 20d4277c7481

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build-psychological-safety is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 2,469 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.