stakeholder-alignment

A writing guide for creating documents that help people agree on a technical or business decision. It covers RFCs, design documents, proposals, meeting pre-reads, and decision records, with clear roles for who drives, decides, advises, and is informed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write an RFC, design document, proposal, pre-read, one-pager, or decision record, and to assign stakeholder roles using DACI or RAPID.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion, repeated discussions, and surprises by putting the reasoning, decision request, and responsibilities in one place.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/viktorbezdek/skillstack/stakeholder-alignment
Any agent
npx skills add viktorbezdek/skillstack --skill stakeholder-alignment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/viktorbezdek/skillstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,963 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 $0.00134 $0.01963
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00196

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6ddc4cdf39ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stakeholder-alignment 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 2d 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.

communication/skills/stakeholder-alignment/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stakeholder Alignment

Decisions fail more often in the alignment than in the logic. A good RFC or decision doc does two things: makes the best argument for the chosen path, and makes the roles of everyone affected explicit so no one is surprised.

Pick the right artifact

Artifact When to use Length
RFC / design doc Technical decision affecting multiple teams; invites comment 3-10 pages
Proposal Bet on a direction that requires budget/headcount/scope 1-3 pages
Pre-read Input for a scheduled decision meeting 1-2 pages
Decision doc Record a decision that has been made (or is being made now) 1 page
One-pager Early alignment on an idea before full RFC 1 page

Use the smallest artifact that produces alignment. A 10-page RFC for a two-team change is over-investment; a Slack thread for a 10-team change is under-investment.

RFC / design doc structure

# [Title] — [state: Draft / Reviewing / Accepted / Rejected / Superseded]

## BLUF
[One-paragraph summary: the problem, the proposed direction, the ask.]

## Roles (DACI)
- **Driver:** [who writes + shepherds]
- **Approver:** [who makes the final call — name, not group]
- **Contributors:** [who provides input]
- **Informed:** [who needs to know]

## Context
[Shared understanding. What led here. Keep controversial claims for later sections.]

## Problem
[What we are trying to solve. Why now.]

## Options considered
- Option A: [name] — [one paragraph] — pros / cons / rough cost
- Option B: [name] — [same]
- Option C: do nothing — [same]

## Recommendation
[Chosen option + why, in one paragraph.]

## Trade-offs
[What we are giving up. What we are not solving. Second-order effects.]

## Open questions
- [ ] [Question needing input] — @person
- [ ] [Assumption needing validation] — @person

## Plan
[Milestones with dates. Dependencies on other teams.]

## Appendix
[Supporting material, benchmarks, prior discussions.]

Variations: for short changes, collapse Options / Recommendation into one section. For contentious changes, expand Trade-offs with a pre-mortem.

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 2d ago First seen · 196 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 6ddc4cdf39ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stakeholder-alignment is a skill published in the GitHub repository viktorbezdek/skillstack (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,963 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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