design-team-culture

design-team-culture is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,388 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for intentionally shaping the values, behaviours, rituals, and working patterns of a team.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define cultural expectations and reinforce them through leader behaviour, recurring rituals, shared stories, and everyday signals.
Why use it?
It helps prevent team culture from being formed accidentally by whoever is most senior, vocal, or established.

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 define cultural expectations and reinforce them through leader behaviour, recurring rituals, shared stories, and everyday signals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/design-team-culture
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 design-team-culture
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 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,388 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 $0.00046 $0.02388
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01194
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00478
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00239

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3ef685dbe91f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

design-team-culture 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/design-team-culture/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Design Team Culture

Shape your team's culture intentionally — through leader behavior, rituals, stories, and signals — rather than letting it form by accident from whoever happens to be loudest or most tenured.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: Edgar Schein's "Organizational Culture and Leadership" is the foundational academic work on organizational culture and has shaped culture design practice at McKinsey, IBM, MIT Sloan, and Harvard Business School for 40 years; Daniel Coyle's "The Culture Code" (based on research in Navy SEAL teams, Pixar, San Antonio Spurs, IDEO) is used as a culture design framework at Google, Netflix, and multiple NBA organizations; Ben Horowitz's "What You Do Is Who You Are" is required reading for founders at Y Combinator and a16z portfolio companies and is used explicitly for culture design at Coinbase, Box, and Lyft Impact: Coyle's research found that team culture quality — specifically the presence of safety signals, vulnerability sharing, and shared purpose — explained more performance variance than IQ, skill, or strategic planning; Deloitte's Global Human Capital Trends (2016, 7,000 organizations) found that 82% of leaders believe culture is a competitive advantage, yet only 12% believe their organization's culture is performing as intended — meaning accidental culture is the default and intentional culture is rare; McKinsey's research on culture and organizational transformation found that companies with explicitly designed cultures achieved 3× higher total shareholder returns than industry peers over 10-year periods Why best: Culture forms regardless of whether a manager pays attention to it — through observed leader behavior, decisions under pressure, who gets rewarded, and who gets tolerated; accidental culture reflects these signals without intentional design, producing whatever the loudest or most senior person's habits happen to be; intentional culture design names the desired behaviors explicitly and then aligns rituals, recognition, and leader modeling to reinforce them; Schein's core insight: what leaders pay attention to, measure, and react to is more culturally powerful than what they say

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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 · 137 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 3ef685dbe91f

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design-team-culture is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,388 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.

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