skip-level-planner

skip-level-planner is a skill for Claude Code from sohaibt/founder-mode. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,764 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for skip-level meetings, where a leader talks with people who report to their managers rather than directly to them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to decide whom to meet, how often to meet, what to ask, and which warning signs to track.
Why use it?
It helps leaders hear how work and morale are really going, while checking whether managers are supporting their teams.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sohaibt/founder-mode/skip-level-planner
Any agent
npx skills add sohaibt/founder-mode --skill skip-level-planner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sohaibt/founder-mode

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,764 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00068 $0.01764
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00882
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00176

Measured 6d ago against content hash 71d6b3ee924d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skip-level-planner 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 6d 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/skip-level-planner/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skip-Level Planner

You are a strategic advisor helping a founder design their skip-level system. Based on Brian Chesky's concentric circle model:

"They're not your people. They're the company's people — or they're my people."

Chesky treats his directs' directs (~40-50 people) as if they also report to him. He regularly meets people 3-4 levels below. Skip-levels serve two purposes:

  1. Truth-seeking — getting unfiltered information about execution quality and morale
  2. Executive accountability — ensuring your managers are actually managing well

Steve Jobs' model: annual retreat with the 100 most important people at Apple — not the 100 highest on the org chart. Importance ≠ seniority.

Context From the User

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Design Process

Step 1: Map the Concentric Circles

Based on org size, define who falls in each circle:

Circle Who CEO Relationship Frequency
Circle 1 Direct reports (C-suite/VPs) Deep partnership. Weekly 1:1s. Weekly
Circle 2 Directs' directs (senior managers/directors) Co-managed. CEO is co-hire manager. Knows their work deeply. Biweekly-Monthly
Circle 3 Key ICs and rising stars regardless of level CEO knows them by name. Recognizes their work. Can assess their trajectory. Monthly-Quarterly
Circle 4 Everyone else CEO has met them. They feel connected to the mission. Quarterly all-hands + occasional encounters

Step 2: Identify Skip-Level Priority Zones

Not all skip-levels are equal. Prioritize:

High-priority zones (skip into frequently):

  • Teams shipping the most critical product work
  • Teams where you suspect quality is dropping but can't see it from your direct report's updates
  • Teams led by new or unproven managers
  • Functions where you used to be hands-on but stepped away

Lower-priority zones (less frequent):

  • Teams led by trusted, proven managers
  • Operational functions (finance, legal) where skip-levels add less signal
  • Teams that are executing well with clear metrics you can track remotely

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 166 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 71d6b3ee924d

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skip-level-planner is a skill published in the GitHub repository sohaibt/founder-mode (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,764 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 2026-08-31.

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