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Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read…
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Install Machiavelli Counsel
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills machiavelli-counsel --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/machiavelli-counsel .claude/skills/machiavelli-counsel && 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 "machiavelli-counsel" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/machiavelli-counsel into .claude/skills/machiavelli-counsel/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "machiavelli-counsel", 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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/machiavelli-counselType 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills machiavelli-counsel --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/machiavelli-counsel .agents/skills/machiavelli-counsel && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "machiavelli-counsel" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/machiavelli-counsel into .agents/skills/machiavelli-counsel/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "machiavelli-counsel", 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills machiavelli-counsel --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/machiavelli-counsel .cursor/skills/machiavelli-counsel && 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 "machiavelli-counsel" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/machiavelli-counsel into .cursor/skills/machiavelli-counsel/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "machiavelli-counsel", 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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git --path skills/machiavelli-counsel--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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills machiavelli-counsel --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/machiavelli-counsel .gemini/skills/machiavelli-counsel && 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 "machiavelli-counsel" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/machiavelli-counsel into .gemini/skills/machiavelli-counsel/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "machiavelli-counsel", 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills machiavelli-counselInstalls 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/machiavelli-counsel .github/skills/machiavelli-counsel && 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 "machiavelli-counsel" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/machiavelli-counsel into .github/skills/machiavelli-counsel/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "machiavelli-counsel", 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills machiavelli-counsel --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/machiavelli-counsel .opencode/skills/machiavelli-counsel && 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 "machiavelli-counsel" agent skill from https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/tree/main/skills/machiavelli-counsel into .opencode/skills/machiavelli-counsel/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "machiavelli-counsel", 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
machiavelli-counsel- GitHub stars
- 1.4k
- Token cost
- ~1.3k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 631 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 1,348
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read…
- Works in 5 steps: New prince or established? (Ch. III,… → Whose arms? (Ch. XII–XIII) — Does the… → Feared, loved, or despised? (Ch. XVII,… → …
- Navigating a reorg
- SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: the questions The… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Machiavelli Counsel is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read and the honest modern counterweight. Use when navigating a reorg, a new leader arriving, stakeholder politics, a territory dispute, or 'my project is caught in politics'. Produces a power map, a Machiavellian assessment, and an ethical playing-it-straight plan.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Navigating a reorg
- A new leader arriving
- Stakeholder politics
- A territory dispute
Example prompts
- “my project is caught in politics”
- “/machiavelli-counsel”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- New prince or established? (Ch. III, VI–VII) — Is the user (or their rival, or
- Whose arms? (Ch. XII–XIII) — Does the user's position rest on their own
- Feared, loved, or despised? (Ch. XVII, XIX) — Machiavelli's real claim is
- The friends of the old order (Ch. VI) — Who benefits from things staying as
- Fortuna vs virtù (Ch. XXV) — Roughly half of outcomes are outside anyone's
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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
Machiavelli Counsel loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 119 tokens; SKILL.md has 631 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 631 words, ~1,328 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/machiavelli-counsel/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- machiavelli-counsel
- description
- Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read and the honest modern counterweight. Use when navigating a reorg, a new leader arriving, stakeholder politics, a territory dispute, or 'my project is caught in politics'. Produces a power map, a Machiavellian assessment, and an ethical playing-it-straight plan.
Machiavelli Counsel Skill
Five hundred years before "stakeholder management," Machiavelli wrote the unsentimental manual on power: how it is gained, kept, and lost. This skill applies The Prince's actual analytical questions to a modern workplace situation — then, because flattery of the reader's cynicism is its own trap, pairs every Machiavellian read with the honest modern move. You get the clear-eyed analysis without the 16th-century ethics.
What This Skill Produces
- A power map of the situation: who decides, who influences the decider, whose support is load-bearing, who loses if you win
- A Machiavellian assessment — what The Prince's framework actually says about your position (not generic "office politics tips")
- A counterweight plan: the ethical version of each move, and where the Machiavellian and honest paths genuinely diverge
- A one-line fortuna check: what part of your position depends on luck holding
Required Inputs
Ask for (if not already provided):
- The situation, in the user's words (reorg, new boss, rival team, stalled project…)
- Who the key people are and what each controls (budget, headcount, the CEO's ear)
- What the user wants to happen, and by when
- What the user has already tried
Framework: the questions The Prince actually asks
Work through these five, in order — each is drawn from the book's recurring analysis:
- New prince or established? (Ch. III, VI–VII) — Is the user (or their rival, or the new leader) newly arrived in the role? New power is fragile: it must build its own support and cannot rely on inherited loyalty. A new exec's first 90 days follow Ch. III dynamics almost embarrassingly well.
- Whose arms? (Ch. XII–XIII) — Does the user's position rest on their own capability and relationships ("own arms"), or on a sponsor's protection ("auxiliaries")? Borrowed power vanishes with the sponsor. Name what is borrowed.
- Feared, loved, or despised? (Ch. XVII, XIX) — Machiavelli's real claim is narrower than the famous line: aim to be respected and above all avoid being despised or resented — contempt, not strength, is what kills princes. Translate: is the user seen as competent-and-fair, soft, or self-serving?
- The friends of the old order (Ch. VI) — Who benefits from things staying as they are? Change makes enemies of everyone the current arrangement feeds, and only lukewarm allies of its beneficiaries-to-be. List both columns for the user's plan.
- Fortuna vs virtù (Ch. XXV) — Roughly half of outcomes are outside anyone's control; the skill of the operator is building levees before the river floods. What is the user treating as stable that is actually luck?
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Output Format
## The situation, read plainly
[2-3 sentences, no euphemism]
## Power map
| Person / group | Controls | Wants | Load-bearing for you? |
## The Machiavellian read
[Each of the five questions above, answered for THIS situation, chapter noted]
## Where Machiavelli is right — and where to ignore him
[The 2-3 insights that hold up · the moves he'd endorse that you shouldn't make,
and what to do instead. Be specific: "he'd say X; the durable version is Y."]
## The next two weeks
[3-5 concrete actions from the honest column]
## Fortuna check
[The one dependency that is luck, and its levee]Quality Checks
- Every assessment traces to one of the five framework questions, chapter cited
- The power map includes at least one person the user didn't mention (asked for, not invented) — the missing stakeholder is usually the story
- The counterweight section names a real divergence, not "be ethical" filler — if the honest move and the Machiavellian move are the same, say so
- No invented quotes: paraphrase the book; quote only what you can quote exactly
- The advice would survive being read aloud to everyone named in it — that test is itself the ethical line this skill holds
Anti-Patterns
- Do not recommend manipulation, deception, or briefing against colleagues — the skill analyses power honestly; it does not coach bad faith. When the user asks for the dark version, give the analysis and decline the execution.
- Do not serve generic office-politics advice ("build relationships!") wearing a Machiavelli hat — every claim should need the book to make it
- Do not repeat the famous misquotes as the book ("the ends justify the means" appears nowhere in it)
- Do not flatter the user's read of their own situation — Machiavelli's entire value is that he didn't
Example Trigger Phrases
- "I'm navigating a reorg."
- "My project is caught in politics."
- "Who holds the power here?"
- "How would Machiavelli play this?"
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/machiavelli-counsel of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0
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| Power Bi Performance Troubleshootinggithub/awesome-copilot | 40k | 1 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Power Platform Architectgithub/awesome-copilot | 40k | 1 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Machiavelli Counsel
What does Machiavelli Counsel do?
Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read…. Machiavelli Counsel is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Analyse a workplace power situation the way Machiavelli's The Prince (1532) would — who holds power, whose support you need, what fortune can take from you — then give both the Machiavellian read and the honest modern counterweight.
When should I use Machiavelli Counsel?
Machiavelli Counsel fits situations like: navigating a reorg; A new leader arriving; stakeholder politics; A territory dispute.
How do I install Machiavelli Counsel in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/machiavelli-counsel in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/machiavelli-counsel in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Machiavelli Counsel in Codex?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/machiavelli-counsel in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/machiavelli-counsel in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Machiavelli Counsel 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill machiavelli-counsel -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/machiavelli-counsel, .gemini/skills/machiavelli-counsel, .github/skills/machiavelli-counsel and .opencode/skills/machiavelli-counsel in your project.
What does Machiavelli Counsel need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Machiavelli Counsel is instructions for the agent only.
Does Machiavelli Counsel 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 Machiavelli Counsel 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 Machiavelli Counsel use?
Machiavelli Counsel 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 Machiavelli Counsel use?
About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Machiavelli Counsel?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Machiavelli Counsel: Statistical Power (K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills, 48k stars), Power (bergside/awesome-design-skills, 3.1k stars), Flowstudio Power Automate Governance (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars) and Power Bi Performance Troubleshooting (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Machiavelli Counsel?
mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.
Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.