org-design SKILL.md skillA
org-design from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/org-design@git:20260916.e72e404Pins git:20260916.e72e404 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/people/skills/org-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.e72e404, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,320 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Designs how an organization is structured — reporting lines, team boundaries, spans and layers, role definition, and workforce planning against the strategy. Use this to structure a new team, restructure an existing one, resolve unclear ownership between teams, plan headcount, or diagnose why a team underperforms for structural rather than individual reasons.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Org design Structure determines what is easy and what requires heroics. Most persistent coordination problems are structural and cannot be fixed by asking people to communicate better. ## Design from the work Start with the work that must happen and its natural boundaries — where handoffs are expensive, and where they are cheap. Draw team lines at the cheap handoffs. Then check: can each team deliver something meaningful without waiting on another? A team that cannot ship without three dependencies is not a team, it is a queue. **Design the org for the work, not around the people currently in it.** Then reconcile deliberately, noting where you have compromised and why. Structures built around individuals fail when those individuals leave, and everyone can see they were built that way. ## Spans and layers Wide spans push decisions down and starve people of attention. Narrow spans give attention and breed layers, which add latency to every decision. Roughly: five to nine reports for a manager whose people need coaching; more where the work is consistent and the people are experienced. Every layer must add decision value — a layer that only …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/org-design@sha256:fe43beb4332dc0abThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.e72e404, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_36qg4oc2ccgpgbw4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.e72e404 latest | 2026-09-16 | e72e404 | 3,320 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.f80dcb5 | 2026-08-28 | f80dcb5 | 2,981 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3320 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_36qg4oc2ccgpgbw4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/org-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fe43beb4332dc0ab8bd9fd59c120686c8d40c2589aa9accecb142913ec14153b
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