tribe-message

tribe-message is a skill for Claude Code from mishahanin/heading-os. It costs 101 tokens per session (857 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for drafting internal messages to a team in a consistent voice, with optional context about conditions, priorities, achievements, and guiding principles.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write all-hands updates and other messages for an internal team on any day, including messages about priorities, milestones, or difficult operating periods.
Why use it?
It helps turn a topic into a clear team-wide message without having to rebuild the structure and tone each time.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps write all-hands updates and other messages for an internal team on any day, including messages about priorities, milestones, or difficult operating periods.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mishahanin/heading-os/tribe-message
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mishahanin/heading-os --skill tribe-message
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mishahanin/heading-os

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 857 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 $0.00101 $0.00857
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00428
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00171
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00086

Measured 9d ago against content hash cfc9af94b520, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tribe-message 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.

.claude/skills/tribe-message/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Tribe Message

Draft a message from Misha to the 31C Tribe. Can be sent any day - not limited to Mondays.

Variables

topic: [What is this message about? Provide the key point or theme] sea_state: [Optional - external conditions if relevant] crunch: yes | no [Is this a Crunch Mode message? Default: no] highlights: [Optional - milestones, wins, or developments to acknowledge] principle: [Optional - which of the Five Core Principles to connect to]


Instructions

Before drafting, read:

  • reference/misha-voice.md - Voice guide, especially Tribe Communications section
  • outputs/operations/workspace/31c-operational-state-model.md - Operational vocabulary and Five Core Principles
  • context/current-data.md - Recent milestones and active workstreams

Draft a Tribe message that:

  • Gets to the point fast - the Tribe reads on phones between time zones
  • States the topic clearly and directly
  • Connects to the operational context when relevant (sea state, heading, principle)
  • If Crunch Mode: declares it, explains what it means, sets expectations
  • Closes warmly but briefly - the captain's voice, not a corporate memo
  • Voss layer: Apply per .claude/rules/voss.md. For Tribe messages: label the Tribe's emotional state before the ask, invite ownership with calibrated questions rather than top-down directives. Full framework: reference/voss-negotiation.md.

Tone: Speak to 50+ experienced professionals. Direct, warm, authoritative. Never condescending. Never cheerleading. Never "Amazing work everyone!"

Length: 100-250 words. Shorter is better. Say what needs to be said and stop.

Message Types

This skill handles any Tribe communication:

  • Weekly updates (sea state + heading)
  • Policy or culture messages
  • Milestone announcements
  • Pre-event or post-event messages
  • Operational updates
  • Crunch Mode declarations

NEVER

  • "Team" / "family" / "crew" - always "Tribe"
  • "Let's give it 110%!"
  • "We're all in this together"
  • Military references
  • Generic motivation language
  • Em-dashes - use hyphens only

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 90 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A cfc9af94b520

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tribe-message is a skill published in the GitHub repository mishahanin/heading-os (11 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 857 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.