headcount
An open-source project that manages agent skills according to a company organizational structure, classifying 172 skills into 16 departments. Each department is installed as a separate plugin, and skills can be loaded at department granularity to control the context budget. It runs on Claude Code and ChatGPT/Codex.
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headcount is a project that organizes agent skills according to a company structure: one chief executive officer, 16 departments, and 172 skills, with each department installed as an independent plugin and skills addressed in the form department:skill.
headcount's official one-line introduction describes it as an agent organization organized by company structure, containing 15+ departments and 125+ skills, each independently installable, running on Claude Code and ChatGPT.
headcount places each department under the .claude/agents/ directory with an agent charter, so that a department can be delegated as a subagent with its own independent write scope, achieving producer/auditor separation.
The commands to install headcount under Claude Code are /plugin marketplace add cbrock84/headcount and /plugin install security@headcount.
ChatGPT and Codex use the same repository and can install it by adding a plugin marketplace (which reads the .agents/plugins/marketplace.json manifest) or by copying departments into the .agents/skills/ directory.
On the ChatGPT/Codex side, skill descriptions share a context budget of about 8,000 characters, and 16 departments total about 50,000 characters, so installing by department is meant to avoid exceeding the budget.
Installing a headcount department does not modify the project repository, does not add dependencies, and does not run anything on its own.
headcount's marketplace.json is the index file by which host tools identify the source of a plugin installation; the same skill directory tree generates two manifests (Claude Code and ChatGPT/Codex), and AGENTS.md plays the role of cross-platform consistency documentation.
The skill itself is prose (Markdown files), and the quality of its output depends on the model running it and the specific system conditions; the article's author did not conduct real threat model testing, and the sample size is zero.
The per-department plugin installation system is designed this way because the shared context budget for skill descriptions is limited; installing everything at once would exceed the budget several times over, causing the triggering mechanism to fail.
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The per-department plugin installation system is designed this way because the shared context budget for skill descriptions is limited; installing everything at once would exceed the budget several times over, causing the triggering mechanism to fail.
50%Unverifiedheadcount's official one-line introduction describes it as an agent organization organized by company structure, containing 15+ departments and 125+ skills, each independently installable, running on Claude Code and ChatGPT.
50%Unverifiedheadcount places each department under the .claude/agents/ directory with an agent charter, so that a department can be delegated as a subagent with its own independent write scope, achieving producer/auditor separation.
50%Unverifiedheadcount is a project that organizes agent skills according to a company structure: one chief executive officer, 16 departments, and 172 skills, with each department installed as an independent plugin and skills addressed in the form department:skill.
50%UnverifiedChatGPT and Codex use the same repository and can install it by adding a plugin marketplace (which reads the .agents/plugins/marketplace.json manifest) or by copying departments into the .agents/skills/ directory.
50%UnverifiedOn the ChatGPT/Codex side, skill descriptions share a context budget of about 8,000 characters, and 16 departments total about 50,000 characters, so installing by department is meant to avoid exceeding the budget.
50%UnverifiedInstalling a headcount department does not modify the project repository, does not add dependencies, and does not run anything on its own.
50%Unverifiedheadcount's marketplace.json is the index file by which host tools identify the source of a plugin installation; the same skill directory tree generates two manifests (Claude Code and ChatGPT/Codex), and AGENTS.md plays the role of cross-platform consistency documentation.
50%UnverifiedThe skill itself is prose (Markdown files), and the quality of its output depends on the model running it and the specific system conditions; the article's author did not conduct real threat model testing, and the sample size is zero.
50%UnverifiedThe commands to install headcount under Claude Code are /plugin marketplace add cbrock84/headcount and /plugin install security@headcount.
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