Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add jeffreytse/grimoire-core --skill run-direct-report-onboardinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffreytse/grimoire-coreWrote this? Show the measurements
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00056 | $0.02003 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.01001 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00401 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00200 |
Grade A, and why
run-direct-report-onboarding 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 7d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Run Direct Report Onboarding
Structure a new direct report's first 30–90 days with explicit goals, relationship introductions, and early wins — so they build context, trust, and confidence before taking on full autonomous scope.
Why This Is Best Practice
Adopted by: Watkins's "The First 90 Days" is the most widely used executive onboarding framework in the world, cited in onboarding programs at McKinsey, Bain, GE, and the US Army War College; Google's re:Work research on new manager effectiveness identified new-hire onboarding as a primary driver of 180-day performance; SHRM's onboarding body of knowledge is the HR industry standard; BambooHR's 2023 survey (1,500 HR professionals) is the largest recent dataset on onboarding outcomes Impact: BambooHR (2023) found that employees who experienced great onboarding were 18× more likely to feel highly committed to the organization; SHRM research shows effective onboarding improves new hire retention by 82% and productivity by over 70%; Watkins's research on executive transitions found that 40% of senior leaders fail within 18 months — and that the primary cause is inadequate onboarding, not lack of skill; the cost of a failed hire is 50–200% of annual salary (SHRM replacement cost studies) Why best: Leaving a new hire to figure out the environment, relationships, and expectations without structure produces the two most common failure modes: (1) the new hire optimizes for the wrong goals because expectations were never made explicit; (2) the new hire fails to build critical relationships during the window when it is socially easy to ask foundational questions; structured onboarding creates a scaffold for both
Sources: Watkins "The First 90 Days" (HBS Press, 2013 updated ed.); Google re:Work "Guide: Improve Your New Manager Effectiveness"; SHRM "Employee Onboarding" practice guide; BambooHR "The Definitive Guide to Employee Onboarding" (2023)
Steps
Before day 1 — prepare the environment
Before the new hire arrives:
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 118 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 9014ba2a256d
run-direct-report-onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository jeffreytse/grimoire-core (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,003 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.
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