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org-planning — Claude Code skill: what it does, how to install

Plans organizational structure, headcount, and hiring sequences. Useful when restructuring teams, balancing reporting lines, and modeling staffing costs.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓ 
npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill org-planning -a claude-code
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What org-planning does

The skill guides organizational design and team planning. It addresses four main dimensions: required headcount by role and timeline, reporting lines with spans of control, hiring sequencing, and staffing cost modeling.

To keep organizations healthy, the skill evaluates team sizes, management layers, and ratios between individual contributors and managers. It identifies structural risks early. Keep in mind that all models are text-based and rely entirely on the information provided in the prompt, with no direct connection to payroll software.

Outputs include text org charts, budget breakdowns, and hiring roadmaps. If an organization develops single points of failure or excessive management layers, the assistant flags those bottlenecks immediately.

What it helps with

  • plan headcount requirements by role and target timeline
  • design reporting lines and manage spans of control
  • sequence critical hires to prioritize recruiting efforts
  • model staffing budgets and evaluate cost trade-offs
  • spot single points of failure and management overhead

Example prompts for the agent

  • Review our team structure and suggest who we should hire next
  • Create an org planning chart and check manager span of control
  • Build a headcount plan and sequence our engineering hires

How to install org-planning

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill org-planning -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/org-planning/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/org-planning/

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Questions about org-planning

How to install org-planning in Claude Code?

Run npx skills add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill org-planning -a claude-code in your terminal. The skill file is placed in ~/.claude/skills/org-planning/SKILL.md.

What does the org-planning skill do?

It designs team structures, tracks manager spans of control, and calculates headcount costs. It also determines which roles need hiring first.

What outputs does org-planning generate?

It produces text-based org charts, budget cost models, and sequenced hiring roadmaps. It also highlights structural vulnerabilities like single points of failure.

Source text

SKILL.md · Apache-2.0 
---
name: org-planning
description: Headcount planning, org design, and team structure optimization. Trigger with "org planning", "headcount plan", "team structure", "reorg", "who should we hire next", or when the user is thinking about team size, reporting structure, or organizational design.
---

# Org Planning

Help plan organizational structure, headcount, and team design.

## Planning Dimensions

- **Headcount**: How many people do we need, in what roles, by when?
- **Structure**: Reporting lines, span of control, team boundaries
- **Sequencing**: Which hires are most critical? What's the right order?
- **Budget**: Headcount cost modeling and trade-offs

## Healthy Org Benchmarks

| Metric | Healthy Range | Warning Sign |
|--------|---------------|--------------|
| Span of control | 5-8 direct reports | < 3 or > 12 |
| Management layers | 4-6 for 500 people | Too many = slow decisions |
| IC-to-manager ratio | 6:1 to 10:1 | < 4:1 = top-heavy |
| Team size | 5-9 people | < 4 = lonely, > 12 = hard to manage |

## Output

Produce org charts (text-based), headcount plans with cost modeling, and sequenced hiring roadmaps. Flag structural issues like single points of failure or excessive management overhead.

© anthropics · Apache-2.0 · anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

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