company-values

company-values is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from manu14357/zskills. It costs 39 tokens per session (879 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for defining a small company’s values and culture before it grows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Choosing company values, preparing hiring criteria, and documenting what the business stands for.
Why use it?
It helps founders turn implicit beliefs into clear principles that can guide hiring and everyday decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Choosing company values, preparing hiring criteria, and documenting what the business stands for.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/manu14357/zskills/company-values
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add manu14357/zskills --skill company-values
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manu14357/zskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 879 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 $0.00039 $0.00879
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00176
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00088

Measured 9d ago against content hash b117a9f7c83b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

company-values 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 9d 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/company-values/SKILL.md · 105 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 105 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Company Values

Define clear, actionable values that guide culture and hiring before scaling your team.

Use This Skill When

  • User is setting up company culture for a new business
  • User is preparing to hire their first employees
  • User wants to codify and communicate what the company stands for
  • User needs values-based decision-making frameworks
  • User says phrases like "company culture", "what do we stand for", "core values", "hiring criteria"

When NOT to Use

  • User is asking for generic corporate mission statements
  • User needs operational procedures or process documentation
  • User is looking for compliance or legal frameworks (use alternative: governance/legal skills)

Context: Values Maturity

Undeveloped: Founder has implicit values; not codified or communicated
Drafted: Values exist but may be generic; not consistently applied
Embedded: Values clear, communicated in hiring/feedback; some inconsistency → Target
Living: Values shape every decision; candidates self-select; culture self-perpetuates

Instructions

Guide the user through defining 3–5 distinctive company values using these prompts:

Discovery Questions

  1. What do you believe that most people don't?

    • Values should be non-obvious, sometimes polarizing
    • Generic values (integrity, teamwork) don't work — everyone claims those
  2. How should people behave when no one is watching?

    • Values reveal themselves in unsupervised moments
    • Real values survive extreme situations, not just normal operations
  3. What would you fire someone for, even if they're crushing metrics?

    • This reveals your true values, not stated ones
    • Performance can't override culture fit
  4. What would you celebrate, even if it didn't directly help the bottom line?

    • Positive behaviors that reflect your values, even at short-term cost
  5. What do you want to be famous for as a company?

    • How do you want to be remembered in your industry?

Value Development Process

Read the full file on GitHub · 105 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. 9d ago First seen · 105 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b117a9f7c83b

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company-values is a skill published in the GitHub repository manu14357/zskills (16 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 879 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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