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culture-architect

Build, measure, and evolve company culture as operational behavior, not wall posters. Use when building company values, assessing culture health, designing rituals, creating culture codes, or handling culture clashes.

Why this skill is useful

Provides frameworks and templates for assessing and evolving company culture that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.

What it needs

About 12k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-21. 462 stars on the source repository.

What this skill does

Culture Architect Culture is what you DO, not what you SAY. This skill builds culture as an operational system -- observable behaviors, measurable health, and rituals that scale from 5 people to 500. Keywords culture, company culture, values, mission, vision, culture code, cultural rituals, culture health, values-to-behaviors, founder culture, culture debt, value-washing, culture assessment, culture survey, psychological safety, culture scaling, engagement, eNPS, remote culture, hybrid culture, culture clash, employer brand, onboarding culture, performance culture, recognition --- Core Principle Culture = (What you reward) + (What you tolerate) + (What you celebrate) If your values say "transparency" but you punish bearers of bad news, your real value is "optics." Culture is not aspirational. It is descriptive. The work is closing the gap between stated and actual. --- Clarify First Before generating, confirm these inputs. If any is unknown or vague, ASK — do not assume: [ ] Which deliverable is needed (values + behaviors, culture code, health survey, ritual calendar, culture-debt audit, or M&A integration) — each has its own template [ ] Company stage and headcount — rituals and transmission mechanisms that work at 15 people break at 150; the ritual matrix is stage-keyed [ ] What is actually rewarded, tolerated, and celebrated today — culture is descriptive, not aspirational; without the honest current state you produce wall-poster platitudes [ ] Work model (in-person, remote, hybrid) — determines which operating principles and meeting rules apply Stop rule: ask only the 2-3 that most change the output. If the user says "just draft it," proceed and list your assumptions at the top of the artifact. …

How to use it

Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:

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