give-developmental-feedback

give-developmental-feedback is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,934 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for giving specific feedback about an observable behaviour, including what happened and its effect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for immediate coaching that improves a behaviour or reinforces a strength outside a formal performance review.
Why use it?
It makes feedback easier to act on and less likely to sound like a vague judgement about someone’s character.

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 for immediate coaching that improves a behaviour or reinforces a strength outside a formal performance review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/give-developmental-feedback
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill give-developmental-feedback
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 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,934 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 $0.00044 $0.01934
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00967
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00193

Measured 6d ago against content hash 503545c1b609, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

give-developmental-feedback 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/give-developmental-feedback/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Give Developmental Feedback

Deliver specific, behavior-grounded feedback using the Situation-Behavior-Impact (SBI) model so the recipient can act on it immediately without becoming defensive.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: The CCL's SBI model is licensed to 750+ organizations globally including Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Cisco; Kim Scott's Radical Candor framework — built on the same behavioral-specificity principles — is used at Apple, Twitter, and Dropbox; Netflix's culture deck mandates candid, real-time peer and manager feedback as a non-negotiable operating principle across the entire organization Impact: Gallup's 2017 research (State of the American Workplace, 195k respondents) found employees who receive regular meaningful feedback are 3.6× more likely to be engaged than those who don't; CCL research documents that behavior-focused feedback using SBI reduces defensive reactions by 40–60% compared to judgment-framed feedback, because recipients can accept a description of behavior without feeling their identity is under attack; managers who give feedback in the moment — not batched into quarterly reviews — improve behavior correction speed by 8–12 weeks Why best: Vague feedback ("be more proactive", "good work") produces no behavior change because recipients cannot identify what to repeat or stop; annual performance review feedback arrives months after the event, making behavioral course-correction practically impossible; SBI grounds every piece of feedback in an observable event that both parties can agree happened, removing the subjectivity that makes feedback feel unfair

Sources: Center for Creative Leadership "Feedback That Works: How to Build and Deliver Your Message" (CCL Press, 2nd ed. 2014); Kim Scott "Radical Candor" (St. Martin's Press, 2017); Gallup "State of the American Workplace" (2017); Netflix "Culture" (culture.netflix.com)

Steps

1. Choose the right moment

Deliver feedback within 24–48 hours of the observed behavior. Beyond 48 hours, behavioral specificity degrades and the feedback feels retrospective rather than developmental.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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 · 138 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 503545c1b609

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give-developmental-feedback is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,934 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.