engineering-culture

engineering-culture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,227 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A framework for defining how an engineering organization works, including shared principles, developer experience, delivery practices, and collaboration rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess engineering culture, improve developer experience, align teams with architecture, increase safe delivery speed, and define cross-functional workflows.
Why use it?
It turns broad concerns such as slow delivery, team friction, or AI coding practices into concrete working agreements and improvement plans.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess engineering culture, improve developer experience, align teams with architecture, increase safe delivery speed, and define cross-functional workflows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/engineering-culture
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus --skill engineering-culture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,227 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

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00022 $0.02227
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01113
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00445
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00223

Measured 12d ago against content hash ce032650c10f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineering-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 12d 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/engineering-culture/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engineering Culture

Scope

Covers

  • Diagnosing the current engineering culture and delivery system (technical, architectural, cultural, and management capabilities)
  • Defining a clear engineering culture code (principles → behaviors → decision rules → anti-patterns)
  • Aligning org structure with architecture (Conway’s Law) and reducing cross-team friction
  • Increasing clock speed (safe shipping + experimentation throughput) and improving DevEx
  • Creating a practical cross-functional workflow contract (how engineering + PM/Design/Marketing collaborate in the same toolchain)
  • Making AI-assisted development safe and effective (humans as “architects”: spec, review, and oversight)

When to use

  • “Help me improve engineering culture / DevEx and make it concrete.”
  • “Our delivery is slow—build a plan to increase shipping speed without breaking things.”
  • “Our org structure fights our architecture—analyze Conway’s Law and propose changes.”
  • “We want tighter processes and faster experimentation (higher clock speed).”
  • “Non-engineering functions struggle to work with engineering—define a shared workflow contract.”
  • “We’re adopting AI coding tools/agents—set norms so engineers shift toward higher-level design and review.”

When NOT to use

  • You need to respond to an active incident or outage (use incident response/runbooks)
  • You need HR/legal policy, investigations, or employee relations handling (involve HR/legal)
  • You only need to implement a specific technical improvement (e.g., “set up CI”) without culture/org/process work
  • You need a full company strategy/roadmap prioritization across many bets (use prioritizing-roadmap)
  • You want to build or refresh company-wide or team culture beyond engineering (use building-team-culture)
  • You need to redesign org structure, reporting lines, or team topology at a company level (use organizational-design)
  • You need a prioritized technical roadmap for specific projects or systems (use technical-roadmaps)
  • You want to improve designer-engineer collaboration workflows specifically (use design-engineering)

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 12d ago First seen · 133 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A ce032650c10f

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engineering-culture is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,227 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.