team-shape
Assess team structure against Skelton's Team Topologies. Evaluate cognitive load, interaction modes, and Conway's Law alignment.
Profile →npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill team-shape --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Team Shape Assessment Evaluate organizational design for fast flow. Source: Skelton & Pais (Team Topologies). ## Assessment Workflow ### 1. Map Current Teams For each team, classify: - **Stream-aligned**: Owns a user journey or business domain (most teams should be this) - **Enabling**: Helps other teams acquire capabilities (temporary engagement) - **Complicated subsystem**: Deep specialist knowledge (only when cognitive load justifies) - **Platform**: Internal product that reduces cognitive load for stream-aligned teams ### 2. Evaluate Cognitive Load For each team, assess: - **Intrinsic load**: Problem complexity (can't reduce, only manage) - **Extraneous load**: Bad tools/processes (SHOULD reduce -- platform teams help here) - **Germane load**: Learning new relevant things (encourage) - If team is overloaded: shrink domain, move complexity to platform, or split ### 3. Audit Interaction Modes Between each pair of collaborating teams: - **Collaboration**: Working closely together (time-box this -- it's expensive) - **X-as-a-Service**: Consuming/providing via API (ideal steady state) - **Facilitating**: Helping another team learn (enabling teams do this) ### 4. Conway's Law Check
- Assessment Workflow
- 1. Map Current Teams
- 2. Evaluate Cognitive Load
- 3. Audit Interaction Modes
- 4. Conway's Law Check
- 4b. Fracture Planes (Skelton & Pais)
- 5. Recommendations
- 5. Bounded Context Alignment (DDD)
- 6. Capability Gap Diagnosis (DASA)
- Bounded Agency (Skelton, 2025-2026)
- Output
What does the team-shape skill do?
Assess team structure against Skelton's Team Topologies. Evaluate cognitive load, interaction modes, and Conway's Law alignment.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add majiayu000/claude-skill-registry --skill team-shape --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, a repository with 534 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.