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Plans the shape and size of the workforce — demand for roles, build-versus-buy, attrition, and sequencing hiring against budget.
Install Workforce Planning
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill workforce-planning -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount workforce-planning --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/workforce-planning .claude/skills/workforce-planning && 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 "workforce-planning" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning into .claude/skills/workforce-planning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "workforce-planning", 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/workforce-planningType 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 workforce-planning -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount workforce-planning --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/workforce-planning .agents/skills/workforce-planning && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "workforce-planning" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning into .agents/skills/workforce-planning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "workforce-planning", 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 workforce-planning -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount workforce-planning --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/workforce-planning .cursor/skills/workforce-planning && 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 "workforce-planning" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning into .cursor/skills/workforce-planning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "workforce-planning", 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/workforce-planning--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 workforce-planning -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount workforce-planning --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/workforce-planning .gemini/skills/workforce-planning && 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 "workforce-planning" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning into .gemini/skills/workforce-planning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "workforce-planning", 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 workforce-planningInstalls 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 workforce-planning -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/workforce-planning .github/skills/workforce-planning && 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 "workforce-planning" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning into .github/skills/workforce-planning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "workforce-planning", 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 workforce-planning -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 workforce-planning --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/workforce-planning .opencode/skills/workforce-planning && 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 "workforce-planning" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning into .opencode/skills/workforce-planning/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "workforce-planning", 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
workforce-planning- GitHub stars
- 2k
- Token cost
- ~817 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 460 words
- Files
- 2 (incl. references)
- Skills in repo
- 175
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Plans the shape and size of the workforce — demand for roles, build-versus-buy, attrition, and sequencing hiring against budget.
- Business, Finance & HR work in your project
- SKILL.md covers Plan capability, not headcount, Sequence matters more than total, Attrition is a planning input and Scenarios, including down, plus 2 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Workforce Planning is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Plans the shape and size of the workforce — demand for roles, build-versus-buy, attrition, and sequencing hiring against budget. Use this to build a hiring plan, decide which roles to open and in what order, model attrition and backfill, plan for a growth or contraction scenario, or connect headcount plans to the budget.
Its SKILL.md is about 820 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. 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
- Business, Finance & HR work in your project
Example prompts
- “Use the workforce-planning skill to plan the shape and size of the workforce — demand for roles, build-versus-buy, attrition, and sequencing hiring…”
- “/workforce-planning”
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
Workforce Planning loads about 817 tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 460 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). 460 words, ~817 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/workforce-planning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.- name
- workforce-planning
- description
- Plans the shape and size of the workforce — demand for roles, build-versus-buy, attrition, and sequencing hiring against budget. Use this to build a hiring plan, decide which roles to open and in what order, model attrition and backfill, plan for a growth or contraction scenario, or connect headcount plans to the budget.
Workforce planning
A hiring plan is an org design decision spread over twelve months and a large financial commitment made in small pieces. It deserves the scrutiny of both.
Plan capability, not headcount
Headcount is an input. Start from what the organization must be able to do that it currently cannot, then work out what closes the gap — hiring, developing existing people, contracting, or not doing the work.
The shape follows from people:org-design; this is about sequencing and quantity over time, funded
against finance:budgeting-and-forecasting on fully loaded cost rather than salary. Salary is
typically well under the true cost, and plans built on it are wrong by a wide and consistent margin.
Sequence matters more than total
Twelve hires in a year is not one number; it is twelve dated decisions with dependencies.
- Hire the people who make other hires productive first. A manager, a lead, or the person who can onboard the next five. Hiring five juniors before the person who will develop them wastes most of the investment.
- Respect absorption capacity. An organization can only integrate so many people at once before onboarding quality falls and existing output drops. Growth past that rate makes things slower for a quarter, reliably.
- Front-load long-lead roles. Scarce skills take months to find. Plotting them at the same lead time as abundant ones is how plans silently slip.
Attrition is a planning input
Some attrition is expected and healthy; the planning error is treating it as noise. Model it by segment — teams, levels and tenure bands differ substantially — and plan backfill lead time from the resignation date, not the leaving date.
Watch regretted attrition specifically, and by manager. Aggregate attrition looks fine while one team is bleeding people, and the aggregate is what gets reported.
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Scenarios, including down
Plan the base case, the growth case and the contraction case. Knowing in advance what you would stop doing, and which commitments are hard to reverse, is what makes a downturn a decision rather than a scramble.
Offers, notice periods and some contractor arrangements are commitments before anyone starts. Know which parts of the plan can still be unwound and by when.
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
- Build a plan on salary rather than fully loaded cost.
- Hire faster than the organization can absorb and expect output to rise.
- Treat attrition as a residual instead of a modeled input.
- Report aggregate attrition without looking at it by team and by manager.
© 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/workforce-planning of cbrock84/headcount.
- SKILL.md
- references/sources.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17
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| Workforce Planning this skillcbrock84/headcount | 2k | — | ~817 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Technical Analysttradermonty/claude-trading-skills | 3k | 5 repos | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
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| Stock APIzhangxiangliang/stock-api | 2k | — | ~507 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Theme Detectortradermonty/claude-trading-skills | 3k | 2 repos | ~4.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Itr Walakaranb192/itr-wala | 871 | — | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Workforce Planning
What does Workforce Planning do?
Plans the shape and size of the workforce — demand for roles, build-versus-buy, attrition, and sequencing hiring against budget. Workforce Planning is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Plans the shape and size of the workforce — demand for roles, build-versus-buy, attrition, and sequencing hiring against budget.
When should I use Workforce Planning?
Workforce Planning fits situations like: business, Finance & HR work in your project.
How do I install Workforce Planning in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill workforce-planning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/workforce-planning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Workforce Planning in Codex?
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill workforce-planning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/people/skills/workforce-planning in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/workforce-planning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Workforce Planning 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 workforce-planning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/workforce-planning, .gemini/skills/workforce-planning, .github/skills/workforce-planning and .opencode/skills/workforce-planning in your project.
What does Workforce Planning need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Workforce Planning is instructions for the agent only.
Does Workforce Planning 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 Workforce Planning 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 Workforce Planning use?
Workforce Planning 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 Workforce Planning use?
About 817 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.3k 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 324 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
What are the alternatives to Workforce Planning?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Workforce Planning: Technical Analyst (tradermonty/claude-trading-skills, 3k stars), Creating Financial Models (Chen-zexi/open-ptc-agent, 729 stars), Stock API (zhangxiangliang/stock-api, 2k stars) and Theme Detector (tradermonty/claude-trading-skills, 3k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Workforce Planning?
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.