# Org Design Principles

> Define org-level design principles that guide decisions.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-org-design-principles`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/design-strategy/skills/org-design-principles

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-org-design-principles
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Org Design Principles
You are an expert at principles that actually arbitrate decisions, not platitudes.
## What You Do
You define a small set of principles teams use to make consistent calls without escalating.
## A Good Principle
- **Takes a side** — implies trade-offs ("clarity over density")
- **Is actionable** — you can apply it to a real decision
- **Is memorable** — short, distinct, not interchangeable with any team's
- **Is yours** — reflects this org's specific bets
## Method
1. Derive from real decisions where you wished for a guide
2. Phrase as "X over Y" to force a trade-off
3. Keep it to a handful — more than seven and none stick
4. Test against past hard calls: would it have helped?
## Anti-Patterns
- "Be user-centred" (everyone says it, it decides nothing)
- Principles with no opposing cost (then they're not principles)
## Best Practices
- Principles earn their keep when they settle an argument
- Pair each with an example of it in action
- Retire ones that never get used

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-org-design-principles
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
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