Agent skill

Learning And Development

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Builds capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility.

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Install Learning And Development

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill learning-and-development -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount learning-and-development --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/people/skills/learning-and-development .claude/skills/learning-and-development && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
learning-and-development
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~989 tokens
SKILL.md length
551 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
175
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Builds capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility.

  • SKILL.md covers Start from the capability gap, Design for transfer, Career frameworks and Internal mobility, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Learning And Development is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Builds capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility. Use this to design a career ladder, close a capability gap, decide whether to build or hire a skill, structure onboarding into a role, or work out why training keeps failing to change anything.

Its SKILL.md is about 990 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 learning-and-development skill to build capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility”
  • “/learning-and-development”

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

Learning And Development loads about 989 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 82 tokens; SKILL.md has 551 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~82
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~989
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~1.3k

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). 551 words, ~989 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/learning-and-development/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
learning-and-development
description
Builds capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility. Use this to design a career ladder, close a capability gap, decide whether to build or hire a skill, structure onboarding into a role, or work out why training keeps failing to change anything.

Learning and development

Training is the most reliably wasted budget in an organization, because attendance is easy to measure and transfer to the job is not.

Start from the capability gap

Training is a solution. Establish the problem first: what should people be able to do that they cannot, and is the cause actually capability?

Frequently it is not. If someone knows how but does not, look for the real obstacle — no time, a process that makes the right thing harder, an incentive pointing elsewhere, or no feedback on whether they did it correctly. Training a motivation or system problem changes nothing and consumes the budget that would have fixed it.

Design for transfer

Most of what people can actually do is learned by doing it, with feedback, on real work. Formal instruction is a small part and it decays quickly without application.

So: teach close to the moment of use, give people real work immediately afterwards, and arrange feedback from someone competent. A course two months before the work is entertainment.

Measure transfer, not satisfaction. Whether attendees enjoyed it is uncorrelated with whether they now do the job differently. Ask their manager at ninety days what changed.

Career frameworks

A framework answers what is expected at each level and what growth looks like. It carries weight far beyond development — it drives compensation bands, promotion decisions, and whether people believe progression is fair. It should be built with people:compensation-and-leveling, not separately.

Make it observable. Levels described by scope, autonomy and impact can be assessed; levels described by seniority adjectives cannot, and collapse into tenure.

Provide a path that is not management. Forcing the best practitioners into management to progress is how organizations lose their best practitioners and gain mediocre managers.

Internal mobility

Internal moves are usually cheaper and lower-risk than external hiring, and they are the main reason capable people stay. The obstacle is almost always managers hoarding talent, which is rational for the manager and expensive for the company.

Fix the incentive rather than the policy: make developing and releasing people something managers are evaluated on. A mobility policy that costs a manager their best person and gives them nothing will be quietly resisted, and quiet resistance always wins.

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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.

Tooling

Delivery: TalentLMS, Docebo, WorkRamp, Absorb, and similar; smaller organizations often do better with a structured path built in the tools people already use than with a platform nobody visits.

Content libraries: LinkedIn Learning, Coursera, Pluralsight, Udemy Business, and similar. Licensed libraries buy breadth and almost never buy transfer — completion rates on self-serve content are low everywhere, and the ones that work are assigned against a named capability gap.

Skills and career frameworks: the HRIS's own, or a maintained document. The framework matters more than the software holding it.

Never

  • Deliver training for a problem that is not a capability problem.
  • Measure a program by satisfaction scores.
  • Write levels in adjectives rather than observable scope and impact.
  • Make management the only route to progression.

© 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/learning-and-development of cbrock84/headcount.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Learning And Development

What does Learning And Development do?

Builds capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility. Learning And Development is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Builds capability — skills gaps, career frameworks, training that transfers to the job, and internal mobility.

How do I install Learning And Development in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill learning-and-development -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/learning-and-development in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/learning-and-development in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Learning And Development in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill learning-and-development -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/learning-and-development in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/learning-and-development in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Learning And Development 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 learning-and-development -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/learning-and-development, .gemini/skills/learning-and-development, .github/skills/learning-and-development and .opencode/skills/learning-and-development in your project.

What does Learning And Development need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Learning And Development is instructions for the agent only.

Does Learning And Development 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 Learning And Development 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 Learning And Development use?

Learning And Development 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 Learning And Development use?

About 989 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4k 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 342 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Learning And Development?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Learning And Development: Product Capability (affaan-m/ECC, 275k stars), Ray Train Distributed Training (Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs, 13k stars), Skill Gap Analysis (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars) and Gaps (anthropics/claude-for-legal, 9.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Learning And Development?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,007 GitHub stars. The repository holds 175 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.