Agent skill

Alignment Values North Star

by lyndonkl in lyndonkl/claude

Creates actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values (guardrails), and decision tenets (behavioral standards).

No licenceAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Alignment Values North Star

skills CLI
$ npx skills add lyndonkl/claude --skill alignment-values-north-star -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install lyndonkl/claude alignment-values-north-star --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/lyndonkl/claude.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/alignment-values-north-star .claude/skills/alignment-values-north-star && 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
alignment-values-north-star
GitHub stars
164
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
500 words
Files
5
Skills in repo
12
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

Creates actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values (guardrails), and decision tenets (behavioral standards).

  • Starting new teams
  • SKILL.md covers Table of Contents, Workflow, Common Patterns and Guardrails, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Scaling organizations

What it does

Alignment Values North Star is an agent skill from lyndonkl/claude. Creates actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values (guardrails), and decision tenets (behavioral standards). Enables autonomous decision-making while maintaining organizational coherence. Use when starting new teams, scaling organizations, defining culture, establishing product vision, resolving misalignment, creating strategic clarity, or when user mentions North Star, team values, mission, principles, guardrails, decision framework, or cultural alignment.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files (for example `resources/evaluators/rubric_alignment_values_north_star.json`, `resources/examples/engineering-team.md` and `resources/methodology.md`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering, covering LLM guardrails and Product strategy. The repository describes itself as: Agents, skills and anything else to use with claude.

When your agent uses it

  • Starting new teams
  • Scaling organizations
  • Defining culture
  • Establishing product vision

Example prompts

  • “Use the alignment-values-north-star skill to create actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values…”
  • “/alignment-values-north-star”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 4acc337. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Alignment Values North Star loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 134 tokens; SKILL.md has 500 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~134
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 500 words (~1,565 tokens).

“The framework has three layers: North Star (aspirational direction), Values/Guardrails (core operating principles), and Decision Tenets/Behaviors (concrete, observable demonstrations of values).”

— opening of SKILL.md by lyndonkl
name
alignment-values-north-star

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files in skills/alignment-values-north-star of lyndonkl/claude.

  • SKILL.md
  • resources/evaluators/rubric_alignment_values_north_star.json
  • resources/examples/engineering-team.md
  • resources/methodology.md
  • resources/template.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 4acc337

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Questions about Alignment Values North Star

What does Alignment Values North Star do?

Creates actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values (guardrails), and decision tenets (behavioral standards). Alignment Values North Star is an agent skill from lyndonkl/claude. Creates actionable alignment frameworks that give teams a shared North Star (direction), values (guardrails), and decision tenets (behavioral standards).

When should I use Alignment Values North Star?

Alignment Values North Star fits situations like: starting new teams; scaling organizations; defining culture; establishing product vision.

How do I install Alignment Values North Star in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add lyndonkl/claude --skill alignment-values-north-star -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/alignment-values-north-star in lyndonkl/claude) into .claude/skills/alignment-values-north-star in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Alignment Values North Star in Codex?

Run `npx skills add lyndonkl/claude --skill alignment-values-north-star -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/alignment-values-north-star in lyndonkl/claude) into .agents/skills/alignment-values-north-star in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Alignment Values North Star 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 lyndonkl/claude --skill alignment-values-north-star -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/alignment-values-north-star, .gemini/skills/alignment-values-north-star, .github/skills/alignment-values-north-star and .opencode/skills/alignment-values-north-star in your project.

What does Alignment Values North Star need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Alignment Values North Star is instructions for the agent only.

Does Alignment Values North Star 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 Alignment Values North Star 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 Alignment Values North Star use?

No licence was found for Alignment Values North Star or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Alignment Values North Star use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Alignment Values North Star?

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Who maintains Alignment Values North Star?

lyndonkl (a GitHub user) maintains it in lyndonkl/claude, which has 164 GitHub stars. The repository holds 12 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 1, 2026.

Source: lyndonkl/claude on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.