Plan Design Review
garrytan/gstack
Designer's eye plan review — interactive, like CEO and Eng review.
Designs and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and the administration that keeps them compliant.
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Install Benefits And Leave
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount benefits-and-leave --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave .claude/skills/benefits-and-leave && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "benefits-and-leave" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave into .claude/skills/benefits-and-leave/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "benefits-and-leave", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leaveType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount benefits-and-leave --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave .agents/skills/benefits-and-leave && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "benefits-and-leave" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave into .agents/skills/benefits-and-leave/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "benefits-and-leave", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount benefits-and-leave --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave .cursor/skills/benefits-and-leave && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "benefits-and-leave" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave into .cursor/skills/benefits-and-leave/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "benefits-and-leave", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git --path plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount benefits-and-leave --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave .gemini/skills/benefits-and-leave && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "benefits-and-leave" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave into .gemini/skills/benefits-and-leave/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "benefits-and-leave", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount benefits-and-leaveInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave .github/skills/benefits-and-leave && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "benefits-and-leave" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave into .github/skills/benefits-and-leave/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "benefits-and-leave", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount benefits-and-leave --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave .opencode/skills/benefits-and-leave && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "benefits-and-leave" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave into .opencode/skills/benefits-and-leave/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "benefits-and-leave", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
benefits-and-leave- GitHub stars
- 2k
- Token cost
- ~906 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 489 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 178
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Designs and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and the administration that keeps them compliant.
- SKILL.md covers Design for what people…, Cost, and the renewal you…, Leave: policy is the easy part and Sources, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Benefits And Leave is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Designs and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and the administration that keeps them compliant. Use this to design or review a benefits package, prepare for a renewal, write leave policy, handle a leave request, or decide what benefits are worth their cost.
Its SKILL.md is about 910 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).
The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.
Example prompts
- “Use the benefits-and-leave skill to design and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and…”
- “/benefits-and-leave”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Benefits And Leave loads about 906 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 489 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 489 words, ~906 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/benefits-and-leave/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- benefits-and-leave
- description
- Designs and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and the administration that keeps them compliant. Use this to design or review a benefits package, prepare for a renewal, write leave policy, handle a leave request, or decide what benefits are worth their cost.
Benefits and leave
Benefits are the second largest people cost after salary and the one employees judge most directly.
people:compensation-and-leveling covers pay bands and leveling; this covers everything else in the
package.
Benefits and leave are heavily regulated and jurisdiction-specific — in the United States, ERISA, COBRA, ACA, FMLA and their state equivalents, with state family-leave and sick-leave laws differing substantially. Plan design and administration need a qualified benefits broker or employment counsel. This structures the decisions and names what to ask.
Design for what people actually value
Benefits budgets are routinely spent on things that survey well and are used rarely, while the things people quietly need are underfunded.
The reliable pattern: health coverage quality, retirement match, and real time off dominate perceived value nearly everywhere. Beyond those, ask rather than assume — a young workforce and one with school-age children value very different things, and the difference is large enough to be worth measuring.
Watch utilization. A benefit nobody uses is either badly communicated or badly chosen, and the two have different remedies.
Cost, and the renewal you should not sleepwalk
Health costs rise faster than general inflation more or less every year, so a flat renewal is not the baseline — the baseline is an increase you must actively negotiate down or absorb by design.
Start renewal months ahead, not weeks. Understand what drives your own experience rating, model plan design changes against employee impact, and market the plan periodically even when you intend to stay — a broker who knows you are not looking negotiates accordingly.
Cost-shifting to employees is a pay cut delivered indirectly. It may be the right call; describe it honestly when you make it, because employees compute it correctly and describing it otherwise costs more trust than the money saved.
Show full SKILL.md (195 more words)Show less
Leave: policy is the easy part
Write policy that a manager can apply without calling HR for every case — eligibility, notice, documentation, pay treatment, and how it interacts with other leave types.
The failures are in administration: leave running concurrently under multiple entitlements, return-
to-work handled ad hoc, and accommodation requests treated as leave questions when they are legal
ones. Route anything touching disability, pregnancy, or accommodation through counsel via
people:employee-relations.
Track leave centrally rather than in managers' memories. The organization that cannot say who is on what leave and until when is the one that mishandles a return.
Sources
references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions
here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before
answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free
to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.
Never
- Change plan design without modeling the effect on the employees who use it most.
- Enter a renewal without having tested the market recently.
- Describe cost-shifting as a benefits enhancement.
- Handle an accommodation request as a leave administration question.
© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave of cbrock84/headcount.
- SKILL.md
- references/sources.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17
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| Design Audit Against Rams' Principlesthedotmack/claude-mem | 99k | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Design Systemaffaan-m/ECC | 276k | — | ~698 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
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Questions about Benefits And Leave
What does Benefits And Leave do?
Designs and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and the administration that keeps them compliant. Benefits And Leave is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Designs and runs employee benefits and leave — health and retirement plans, leave policy, cost and renewal, and the administration that keeps them compliant.
How do I install Benefits And Leave in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/benefits-and-leave in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Benefits And Leave in Codex?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/benefits-and-leave in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/benefits-and-leave in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Benefits And Leave in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill benefits-and-leave -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/benefits-and-leave, .gemini/skills/benefits-and-leave, .github/skills/benefits-and-leave and .opencode/skills/benefits-and-leave in your project.
What does Benefits And Leave need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Benefits And Leave is instructions for the agent only.
Does Benefits And Leave access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Benefits And Leave safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Benefits And Leave use?
Benefits And Leave is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Benefits And Leave use?
About 906 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 445 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Benefits And Leave?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Benefits And Leave: Plan Design Review (garrytan/gstack, 136k stars), Plan Design Review (nexu-io/open-design, 100k stars), Design Audit Against Rams' Principles (thedotmack/claude-mem, 99k stars) and Design System (affaan-m/ECC, 276k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Benefits And Leave?
cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.
Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.