Organize agent skills as installable company departments with headcount
An open-source GitHub repository called headcount arranges agent skills like a company, with a chief executive over departments such as security, finance, product and marketing. Each department installs separately as a plugin in Claude Code, ChatGPT or Codex.
The problem
Loading a large library of agent skills into every project is heavy, and generic prompts do not carry the domain expertise a given function needs. Skill names can also collide across areas. The repository tries to fix this by grouping skills into separate, independently installable departments.
How they did it
- In Claude Code, add the repository as a plugin marketplace, then install only the departments the project needs.
- In ChatGPT or Codex, add the same repository as a plugin marketplace, or copy a department into .agents/skills/ in your own project.
- Address skills as department:skill, for example security:threat-modeling, so names never collide.
- Let skills load automatically when a request matches a department's territory, or call one directly by name, e.g. /finance:financial-modeling.
- Optionally delegate to a department as a subagent through the agent charters in .claude/agents/.
From the official docs
/plugin marketplace add cbrock84/headcount
/plugin install security@headcountResults
- As reported by the repository README: a chief executive over 16 departments, 172 skills in total.
- Every department is an independently installable plugin, so a project loads only the functions it needs.
- The Security department (8 skills) is labelled reviewer-class, and the docs describe it stopping work rather than just adding opinions.
As reported by the source (GitHub repository README (cbrock84/headcount)); AgentGid did not measure these figures.
This suits solo developers or small teams already working in Claude Code or Codex who want domain skills without a bloated library; setup is just adding a plugin marketplace. The 16 departments and 172 skills are README figures, so check that each skill fits your work before relying on it. If you'd rather avoid a paid plan, Codex starts free ("Free + $8/mo"), while Claude Code is "$20/mo" with no free tier.
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