alignment-values-north-star

alignment-values-north-star is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,605 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for giving a team shared direction, values, and rules for making decisions. A North Star is the central goal that helps people choose what to do when instructions are incomplete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when forming or scaling teams, defining product or engineering principles, setting culture, clarifying strategy, or integrating organizations after a merger.
Why use it?
It helps resolve disagreement and unclear priorities by making the team's purpose and expected behaviour explicit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when forming or scaling teams, defining product or engineering principles, setting culture, clarifying strategy, or integrating organizations after a merger.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library/alignment-values-north-star
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library --skill alignment-values-north-star
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,605 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 $0.00070 $0.01605
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00803
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00161

Measured 9d ago against content hash b616ab81a70f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alignment-values-north-star 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/alignment-values-north-star/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alignment: Values & North Star

Table of Contents

Purpose

Create clear, actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values (guardrails), and decision tenets (behavioral standards). This enables autonomous decision-making while maintaining coherence across the organization.

When to Use This Skill

  • Starting new teams or organizations (defining identity)
  • Scaling teams (maintaining culture as you grow)
  • Resolving misalignment or conflicts (clarifying shared direction)
  • Defining product/engineering/design principles
  • Creating strategic clarity after pivots or changes
  • Establishing decision-making frameworks
  • Setting cultural norms and behavioral expectations
  • Post-merger integration (aligning different cultures)
  • Crisis response (re-centering on what matters)
  • Onboarding leaders who need to understand team identity

Trigger phrases: "North Star", "team values", "mission", "vision", "principles", "guardrails", "what we stand for", "decision framework", "cultural alignment", "operating principles"

What is Values & North Star Alignment?

A framework with three layers:

  1. North Star: The aspirational direction - where are we going and why?
  2. Values/Guardrails: Core principles that constrain how we operate
  3. Decision Tenets/Behaviors: Concrete, observable behaviors that demonstrate values

Quick Example:

# Engineering Team Alignment

## North Star
Build systems that developers love to use and operators trust to run.

## Values
- **Simplicity**: Choose boring technology that works over exciting technology that might
- **Reliability**: Every service has SLOs and we honor them
- **Empathy**: Design for the developer experience, not just system performance

## Decision Tenets
When choosing between options:
✓ Pick the solution with fewer moving parts
✓ Choose managed services over self-hosted when quality is comparable
✓ Optimize for debuggability over micro-optimizations
✓ Document decisions (ADRs) for future context

## Behaviors (What This Looks Like)
- Code reviews comment on operational complexity, not just correctness
- We say no to features that compromise reliability
- Postmortems focus on learning, not blame
- Documentation is part of "done"

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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 · 164 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A b616ab81a70f

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alignment-values-north-star is a skill published in the GitHub repository onfire7777/universal-ai-skills-library (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,605 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.