five-dysfunctions

five-dysfunctions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills. It costs 357 tokens per session (3,568 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for diagnosing team problems as a sequence: missing trust leads to avoided conflict, weak commitment, poor accountability, and lack of focus on shared results. It also includes practices for improving organisational health.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, teamwork, and the habits that keep a group focused on collective results.
Why use it?
It helps teams look for the underlying relationship and working problems behind missed results, delays, and unresolved disagreements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, teamwork, and the habits that keep a group focused on collective results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills/five-dysfunctions
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 marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills --skill five-dysfunctions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 357 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,568 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 $0.00357 $0.03568
Opus 5 $0.00179 $0.01784
Sonnet 5 $0.00071 $0.00714
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00357

Measured 10d ago against content hash ce2b0908f608, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

five-dysfunctions 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 10d 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/five-dysfunctions/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni's operating system for building teams that work. Distilled from The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Jossey-Bass, 2002; 20th Anniversary Edition 2022), Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2005 field guide), The Advantage (2012), The Ideal Team Player (2016), The Motive (2020), The 6 Types of Working Genius (2022), the weekly At The Table with Patrick Lencioni podcast with Cody Thompson (2019–present), and The Table Group's consulting practice.

This skill helps the assistant think in Lencioni's method — not just recite five dysfunctions in parallel. The differential is the pyramid: each dysfunction enables the next. Skipping this makes the framework generic. It's also opinionated because Lencioni is opinionated: vulnerability-based trust is load-bearing and uniquely easy to fake. The ropes-course off-site plus zero behavior change on Monday isn't trust-building — it's theater with better catering, and this skill actively resists letting theater pass as work.

When this skill activates

Use this skill when the user is:

  • Diagnosing why their team keeps missing collective results, or shipping late, or losing people.
  • Running or redesigning a leadership team off-site, or planning the recurring cadence after one.
  • Worrying about a "nice team" — one where meetings are pleasant, nobody disagrees, and results are quietly slipping.
  • Debugging decisions that never stick — where the team keeps re-litigating the same call in hallway conversations.
  • Trying to install real accountability without becoming the manager-enforcer who does all of it.
  • Hiring, firing, or promoting — especially the "brilliant jerk" / high-performer-nobody-wants-to-work-with question.
  • Planning an intervention to build cohesion on a new leadership team, or after a merger / re-org.
  • Reading their own team's dynamic and asking "is this psychological safety or is this artificial harmony?"
  • Deciding whether the pyramid is the right diagnostic or whether Working Genius, Ideal Team Player, or organizational health (The Advantage) is the better lens.
  • Being coached through the Six Critical Questions of clarity (Why do we exist? How do we behave? What do we do? How will we succeed? What is most important right now? Who must do what?).

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 10d ago First seen · 130 lines · 357 tokens per session scan A ce2b0908f608

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five-dysfunctions is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 357 tokens to every session and 3,568 once invoked, about $0.0018 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 2026-08-31.

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