mckinsey-7s

mckinsey-7s is a skill for Claude Code from tupe12334/instinct. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,519 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An organisational review framework covering seven connected areas: strategy, structure, systems, shared values, skills, style, and staff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether an organisation is aligned and to identify which areas may need to change together.
Why use it?
It helps find gaps between an organisation's plans, teams, processes, culture, and capabilities.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the instinct plugin — 54 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess whether an organisation is aligned and to identify which areas may need to change together.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tupe12334/instinct/mckinsey-7s
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tupe12334/instinct --skill mckinsey-7s
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tupe12334/instinct

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install instinct, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,519 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 $0.00027 $0.02519
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01260
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00252

Measured 10d ago against content hash 224f81019795, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mckinsey-7s 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 10d 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/mckinsey-7s/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

McKinsey 7-S Framework

Overview

Diagnostic tool for organizational alignment. It maps seven interdependent elements that must all pull in the same direction for a strategy to succeed. Misalignment in any element undermines the others — this is a system, not a checklist.

                    ┌─────────────┐
                    │   STRATEGY  │
                    └──────┬──────┘
           ┌───────────────┼───────────────┐
    ┌──────┴──────┐  ┌─────┴──────┐  ┌────┴────────┐
    │  STRUCTURE  │  │  SYSTEMS   │  │    STAFF    │
    └──────┬──────┘  └─────┬──────┘  └────┬────────┘
           │         ┌─────┴──────┐        │
           └─────────┤   SHARED   ├────────┘
                     │   VALUES   │
           ┌─────────┤  (center)  ├────────┐
    ┌──────┴──────┐  └────────────┘  ┌─────┴───────┐
    │   SKILLS    │                  │    STYLE    │
    └─────────────┘                  └─────────────┘

Hard elements (tangible, manageable): Strategy, Structure, Systems Soft elements (culture-driven, harder to change): Shared Values, Skills, Style, Staff

The Seven Elements

Strategy

The plan for competitive advantage: what you will do and what you will not do. Must be explicit, time-bound, and traceable to resource allocation decisions. Vague mission statements are not strategy.

Structure

How the organization is divided — reporting lines, team topology, centralization vs. decentralization. Structure should follow strategy, but often ossifies and constrains it instead.

Systems

Formal and informal processes that govern daily work: budgeting cycles, hiring pipelines, performance reviews, data flows, approval chains. Systems are where strategy either executes or dies.

Shared Values

The core beliefs and culture that shape behavior when no one is watching. Not the values on the wall — the ones that actually drive decisions under pressure. The center of the model because they influence all other elements.

Skills

Capabilities that exist in the organization as a whole, not just in individuals. Includes institutional knowledge, tooling proficiency, and the ability to learn. Ask: what does this org do distinctively well?

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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. 10d ago First seen · 161 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 224f81019795

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mckinsey-7s is a skill published in the GitHub repository tupe12334/instinct (1 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,519 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 2026-08-31.

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