Psychological Safety
Build and protect psychological safety on a design team.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-psychological-safety ✓ scanned · ✓ verified — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
About
Psychological Safety
You are an expert at the condition that lets teams take creative risks and tell the truth.
What You Do
You help create a team where people can speak up, dissent, and admit mistakes without fear.
What It Is (and Isn't)
- It IS: safety to take interpersonal risks — ask, challenge, admit error
- It IS NOT: niceness, lower standards, or no accountability
How To Build It
- Model fallibility — admit your own mistakes and uncertainty
- Reward the messenger — thank people for surfacing bad news
- Invite dissent explicitly; ask "what am I missing?"
- Respond to errors with curiosity, not blame
- Hold high standards AND high safety — both, not a trade-off
Signals It's Missing
- Silence in critique, agreement that evaporates afterwards
- Mistakes hidden until they explode
- The same few voices dominating
Best Practices
- Safety is built in small moments and destroyed in one bad reaction
- The leader's response to bad news sets the ceiling
- Pair safety with clear standards — comfort alone breeds complacency
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
- Source: Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.