give-employee-recognition

give-employee-recognition is a skill for Claude Code from jeffreytse/grimoire-core. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,804 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for recognising an employee’s specific contribution, achievement, or helpful behaviour outside formal reviews and pay decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write or deliver recognition that explains what someone did, why it mattered, and who benefited.
Why use it?
It helps managers make appreciation clear and timely, so employees understand which actions mattered and should be repeated.

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 write or deliver recognition that explains what someone did, why it mattered, and who benefited.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeffreytse/grimoire-core/give-employee-recognition
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 give-employee-recognition
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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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,804 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 $0.00042 $0.01804
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00902
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00180

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3bbcf042c5f7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

give-employee-recognition 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/give-employee-recognition/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Give Employee Recognition

Deliver specific, timely, and meaningful recognition that names what the employee did, why it mattered, and who was impacted — so recognition reinforces the behavior rather than just making the employee feel noticed.

Why This Is Best Practice

Adopted by: O.C. Tanner serves 35,000+ organizations globally with recognition programs; Salesforce, Google, and Microsoft have built peer-to-peer and manager recognition into their internal culture platforms; Gallup's Q12 employee engagement survey includes "In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work" as one of 12 core engagement indicators because it has the strongest correlation with business outcomes of any single survey item Impact: Gallup's 2022 meta-analysis (112,312 business units, 2.7M employees) found that employees who receive recognition in the last seven days are 10× more likely to be engaged; O.C. Tanner's Global Culture Report (2022, 38,000 respondents across 21 countries) found that 79% of employees who quit cited lack of appreciation as a primary reason; SHRM/Globoforce research found organizations with strategic recognition programs have 31% lower voluntary turnover Why best: Generic recognition ("great job", "well done") does not reinforce specific behavior because the recipient cannot identify what to repeat; compensation-linked recognition (bonuses) is appreciated but is processed as transactional, not relational, and does not produce the engagement effects of timely verbal or written recognition; the most impactful recognition is specific, timely, and socially visible — it tells the recipient exactly what they did, why it mattered to someone else, and ideally in front of peers

Sources: Gallup "Unleash the Human Potential of Your Workforce" (2022); O.C. Tanner "Global Culture Report" (2022); SHRM/Globoforce "The Business Impact of Employee Recognition" (2018); Buckingham & Goodall "Nine Lies About Work" (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019)

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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 · 121 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3bbcf042c5f7

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give-employee-recognition is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,804 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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