Claude Code gets a middle-management layer

What it does

Headcount is a plugin system for Claude Code that organizes agent capabilities as a corporate hierarchy. Rather than monolithic prompt packs, its departments—Security, Finance, Technology, Product—are modular and load independently, each containing specific skills like security:threat-modeling or finance:unit-economics. Skills activate automatically when a request matches their territory, or they can be invoked directly by exact name.

The interesting bit

The corporate metaphor is structural, not decorative. Departments can be delegated as subagents with their own exclusive write surfaces, and reviewer-class departments like Security carry the authority to stop work rather than simply adding another opinion to the thread.

Key highlights

• 16 independently loadable departments and 146 skills total, so projects only pull what they need
• Skills are namespaced as department:skill, preventing name collisions across teams
• Auto-triggering by request territory plus direct invocation by exact name
• Reviewer-class departments can halt work instead of merely advising
• Cross-department playbooks for complex scenarios like SOC 2 demands or incident response

Verdict

Grab it if you want Claude Code to behave like a staffed company with real departments and authority boundaries. Skip it if a lone generalist assistant is all you need.