Agent skill

Performance Management

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Runs performance systems that change behavior — expectations, feedback, review cycles, calibration, and handling underperformance.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Performance Management

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill performance-management -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount performance-management --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/performance-management .claude/skills/performance-management && 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
performance-management
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
583 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
175
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Runs performance systems that change behavior — expectations, feedback, review cycles, calibration, and handling underperformance.

  • Tasks that involve Performance reviews
  • SKILL.md covers Expectations before assessment, Feedback in the week, not the…, Calibration and Sustained underperformance, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Performance Management is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Runs performance systems that change behavior — expectations, feedback, review cycles, calibration, and handling underperformance. Use this to design or fix a review process, run calibration, write or coach on feedback, address sustained underperformance, or work out why reviews consume weeks and change nothing.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k 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`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Performance reviews. 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.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Performance reviews

Example prompts

  • “/performance-management”

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

Performance Management loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 583 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
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). 583 words, ~1,059 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/performance-management/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
performance-management
description
Runs performance systems that change behavior — expectations, feedback, review cycles, calibration, and handling underperformance. Use this to design or fix a review process, run calibration, write or coach on feedback, address sustained underperformance, or work out why reviews consume weeks and change nothing.

Performance management

Most review systems are an expensive annual ritual that surprises nobody and improves nothing. The work happens in the ordinary week; the cycle should record it, not discover it.

Performance documentation carries legal weight, particularly around termination, discrimination and accommodation. Employment law varies by jurisdiction — involve qualified counsel before acting on sustained underperformance.

Expectations before assessment

Nobody can be fairly assessed against a standard they were not given. Expectations need to be specific to the level, written down, and shared before the period rather than produced during review as justification.

Separate two axes deliberately, because conflating them is the most common structural flaw:

  • Outcomes — what was delivered, which is partly situational.
  • Behaviors — how it was done, which is more within the person's control.

Someone who delivered through a collapsing market and someone who delivered by scorching the earth around them are different cases. A single blended rating hides both.

Feedback in the week, not the quarter

Feedback is useful proportional to its proximity to the event. Specific, immediate, and about the work: what happened, what the effect was, what to do differently.

The annual cycle should contain nothing new. A review that surprises someone is a reporting failure by their manager, and the surprise is the finding.

Calibration

Managers rate differently — some systematically generously, some harshly — and the differences are invisible until ratings sit side by side. Calibration exists to make comparison possible, not to fit a distribution.

Forced distributions are the failure mode here. On small teams they are statistically meaningless, and they reliably destroy exactly the collaboration the values section claims to reward.

Calibrate on evidence: what was delivered, at what level, against what expectation. A rating that cannot be defended with an example is a preference.

Sustained underperformance

Address it early and directly. Late intervention is worse for everyone, most of all the person, who has been allowed to believe they were fine.

Establish which it is first, because the remedies do not overlap: unclear expectations, missing capability, a role mismatch, or something outside work. Treating a role mismatch as a capability problem produces a performance plan that fails for reasons nobody named.

Where a formal plan is warranted it needs specific outcomes, a real timeframe, defined support, and a stated consequence. A plan that is only a paper trail for a decision already taken is recognized as such and does damage well beyond the individual.

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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

Review and feedback: Lattice, Culture Amp, 15Five, Leapsome, Workday Talent, and similar.

Engagement measurement usually ships in the same platforms, which is convenient and creates a temptation worth resisting: engagement data and performance data should not be joined at the individual level, because people answer honestly only while that is true.

The tool cannot fix a process problem. If reviews are late, unspecific, or a surprise to the person receiving them, changing platforms will produce the same reviews on a nicer form.

Never

  • Assess against expectations that were not set in advance.
  • Deliver news in a review that should have been given weeks earlier.
  • Force a distribution on a small team.
  • Start a performance plan without deciding whether the problem is capability or fit.

© 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/performance-management of cbrock84/headcount.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/sources.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Performance Management

What does Performance Management do?

Runs performance systems that change behavior — expectations, feedback, review cycles, calibration, and handling underperformance. Performance Management is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Runs performance systems that change behavior — expectations, feedback, review cycles, calibration, and handling underperformance.

When should I use Performance Management?

Performance Management fits situations like: tasks that involve Performance reviews.

How do I install Performance Management in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Performance Management in Codex?

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

Can I use Performance Management 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 performance-management -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/performance-management, .gemini/skills/performance-management, .github/skills/performance-management and .opencode/skills/performance-management in your project.

What does Performance Management need to run?

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

Does Performance Management 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 Performance Management 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 Performance Management use?

Performance Management 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 Performance Management use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k 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 262 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Performance Management?

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Who maintains Performance Management?

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.