team-culture

team-culture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RefoundAI/lenny-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,536 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for building and maintaining a strong team culture through transparency, psychological safety, ownership, and customer focus.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing team dynamics, defining behavior-based values, creating team rituals, and diagnosing collaboration issues.
Why use it?
It helps leaders address unclear values, weak accountability, trust problems, and gaps in team intensity.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for reviewing team dynamics, defining behavior-based values, creating team rituals, and diagnosing collaboration issues.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/refoundai/lenny-skills/team-culture
About the project

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.

RefoundAI/lenny-skills · 1,321 stars · on GitHub

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 RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill team-culture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,536 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00029 $0.01536
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00768
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00154

Measured 8d ago against content hash 02acbbce33df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

team-culture 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 8d 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/team-culture/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.

Building High-Performing Team Culture

Establish a culture of ownership, transparency, and intensity to drive long-term product success.

Help the user with building high-performing team culture using insights from 26 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

How to Help

  1. Audit Cultural DNA - Help the leader analyze their current team dynamics and founder strengths to identify the inherent traits that define their culture.
  2. Define Actionable Values - Guide the user in drafting team values that include specific behavioral trade-offs rather than generic aspirational statements.
  3. Design Team Rituals - Suggest specific rituals for building trust, sharing work, and celebrating wins based on the team's specific remote or in-person setup.
  4. Diagnose Intensity Gaps - Assist the leader in identifying where organizational velocity or accountability is slipping and provide scripts for correcting those teams.

Core Principles

Results Over Popularity

Alisa Cohn: "They're trying now to be the leader who everyone loves, but what really needs to happen very often is, we need to drive towards results. This employee continuing to not really do a great job at their job, you don't want to push them because you don't want to upset them. You don't want to give them difficult feedback, so you're just going to keep hoping it works out. Ultimately, that leads to the demise of your company."

High-performing leaders must prioritize organizational results and performance standards over the desire to be liked by every individual. Avoiding difficult feedback to preserve popularity ultimately jeopardizes the long-term survival of the company.

Radical Business Transparency

Daniel Lereya: "We really have an approach of very radical transparency about everything. Before we went public, we actually shared every bit of information with our employees. Instead of demoralizing people, I think that this is something that gives them a sense of deep partnership."

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

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.

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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 02acbbce33df

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team-culture is a skill published in the GitHub repository RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1,321 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,536 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.