Lenny Skills is a collection of product-management and engineering workflows for Claude Code and other AI agents, covering areas such as strategy, research, planning, shipping, growth, and hiring. Each skill gives an agent specialized guidance, frameworks, checklists, or templates for product work, and the catalogue contains many of these skills.
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.
npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill org-designgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/org-design)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/org-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/org-design/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/org-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/org-design.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00039 | $0.01754 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00877 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00351 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00175 |
Grade A, and why
org-design 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 11d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Organizational Design for Product and Engineering
Structure your teams to maximize autonomy, speed, and strategic alignment.
Help the user with organizational design for product and engineering using insights from 27 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.
How to Help
- Analyze Lifecycle and Goals - Determine if the company needs speed and agility via a GM model or product cohesion via a Functional model.
- Define Team Boundaries - Structure autonomous pods around durable customer segments or outcomes rather than temporary features.
- Assign Leadership Pairs - Pair Product and Engineering leads at every level to ensure business strategy and technical execution are balanced.
- Implement Scaling Guardrails - Add specialized roles like product ops and clear career ladders as the organization grows to maintain velocity.
Core Principles
Shift from Projects to Programs
Bill Carr: "Let's create teams that can stand alone, where there's a single leader and the cross- functional resources that they need are all either directly report to them or are dedicated to them. So they don't necessarily have to be a straight line direct report. In Amazon's case, for the most part it was. There were some dotted line, but it could be all straight line, it could be all dotted line, it could be a mix of the two."
Move away from shifting resources between tasks toward a program orientation where teams own a specific customer area indefinitely. This empowers single-threaded leaders to take full ownership of long-term outcomes.
Unify Under a Single CPTO
Claire Vo: "I'm using CPTO for short code of running product and engineering design functionally together. There should be no debates over what's best for product or what's best for engineering, what's best for design speed. What is best for the organization?"
Consolidating product, engineering, and design under one leader eliminates functional silos. This alignment stops internal debates and optimizes for overall organizational speed over individual department goals.
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 98 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 86a8697623ee
org-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1,318 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,754 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 2026-08-30.
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linear
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notion
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github-issues
Create, manage, triage, and close GitHub issues. Search existing issues, add labels, assign people, and link to PRs. Works with gh CLI or falls back to git + GitHub REST API via curl.
trello
Manage Trello boards, lists, and cards via the Trello REST API.
things-mac
Manage Things 3 via the things CLI on macOS (add/update projects+todos via URL scheme; read/search/list from the local Things database). Use when a user asks OpenClaw to add a task to Things, list inbox/today/upcoming, search tasks, or inspect projects/areas/tags.
wayfinder
Plan a huge chunk of work — more than one agent session can hold — as a shared map of decision tickets on your issue tracker, and resolve them one at a time until the way to the destination is clear.