hiring-playbook

hiring-playbook is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mfwarren/entrepreneur-claude-skills. It costs 4 tokens per session (548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A hiring process guide covering job descriptions, interview scorecards, take-home assignments, and evaluation rubrics. A scorecard lists the skills being assessed, questions, strong-answer criteria, and scores.

In plain words
What is it for?
Defining roles, writing job adverts, planning interviews, creating take-home tasks, and evaluating candidates.
Why use it?
It gives hiring decisions a consistent structure instead of relying on vague role descriptions or unplanned interviews. It also helps separate essential skills from optional ones.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Defining roles, writing job adverts, planning interviews, creating take-home tasks, and evaluating candidates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mfwarren/entrepreneur-claude-skills/hiring-playbook
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 mfwarren/entrepreneur-claude-skills --skill hiring-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mfwarren/entrepreneur-claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 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 $0.00004 $0.00548
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00274
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00055

Measured 13d ago against content hash 50d4829bda94, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hiring-playbook 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 13d 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/operations/hiring-playbook/SKILL.md · 88 lines

What it actually says

Hiring Playbook

Job descriptions, interview scorecards, take-home assignments, and evaluation rubrics.

Purpose

Hiring is the highest-leverage activity a founder does. A bad hire costs 3-6 months of salary plus opportunity cost. This skill structures the hiring process to reduce bad hires.

Workflow

Step 1: Define the Role

  • Title and level
  • Core responsibilities (3-5, not a laundry list)
  • Must-have vs. nice-to-have skills
  • Reporting structure
  • Compensation range
  • Remote/hybrid/onsite

Step 2: Write the Job Description

  • Hook: Why this role matters (not company history)
  • What you'll do: Specifics, not vague responsibilities
  • What you bring: Skills and experience (separate must-haves from nice-to-haves)
  • What we offer: Compensation, benefits, culture (be specific)
  • How to apply: Clear instructions, include a filter question

Step 3: Interview Scorecard

For each competency, define:

  • What you're assessing
  • Questions to ask
  • What a great answer looks like
  • Scoring rubric (1-5)

Step 4: Take-Home Assignment (if applicable)

  • Should take under 2 hours
  • Mirror real work they'd do in the role
  • Clear evaluation criteria
  • Respect their time — pay for it if possible

Step 5: Evaluation Framework

  • Structured debrief template
  • Hire/No-hire decision framework
  • Reference check questions

Output Format

## Hiring Playbook: [Role Title]

### Job Description
[Complete JD]

### Interview Scorecard
| Competency | Question | Great Answer | Score (1-5) |
|-----------|----------|-------------|-------------|

### Take-Home Assignment
[Brief and rubric]

### Reference Check Questions
[5 questions]

Constraints

  • Job descriptions should be inclusive — avoid gendered language and unnecessary requirements
  • Don't use trick questions in interviews
  • Take-home assignments must be reasonable in scope
  • Evaluation criteria must be defined before interviewing, not after
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. 13d ago First seen · 88 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 50d4829bda94

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hiring-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository mfwarren/entrepreneur-claude-skills (67 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.

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