rewardsdna/people-science-skills

# GitHub Repository: rewardsdna/people-science-skills

**URL:** https://github.com/rewardsdna/people-science-skills
**Author:** rewardsdna
**Description:** Foundational agent skill for rigorous reasoning about people, work, organizations, HR, compensation, and talent decisions. Grounds AI in behavior, first principles, and evidence instead of conventional HR practices.
**Homepage:** https://rewardsdna.com/
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- Created: 2026-09-05T03:36:43Z
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## README
# People Science Skills

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**Better questions → Better reasoning → Better decisions → Better decision systems.**

A collection of agent skills that help AI systems reason more carefully about people, work, organizations, HR, compensation, talent, and workforce decisions.

These skills do **not** turn an agent into an "HR expert."  
They force better questions, clearer mechanisms, stronger evidence standards, and more transparent decision-making.

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## 🚀 Quick Install

### Universal / CLI (Recommended)

Install via `skills` CLI:

```bash
# Interactive selection (pick skills from list)
npx skills add https://github.com/rewardsdna/people-science-skills

# Install individual skills directly
# Core skill
npx skills add https://github.com/rewardsdna/people-science-skills --skill people-science-core-reasoning

# Companion skills
npx skills add https://github.com/rewardsdna/people-science-skills --skill compensation-decisioning
npx skills add https://github.com/rewardsdna/people-science-skills --skill hr-analytics-decisioning
npx skills add https://github.com/rewardsdna/people-science-skills --skill organizational-behavior-decisioning
```

### Manual Installation

Clone the repository and copy the target skill folder into your agent's skills directory:

```bash
# ~/.claude/skills/   (Claude / Claude Code)
# ~/.cursor/skills/   (Cursor)
# ~/.grok/skills/     (Grok)
# .agents/skills/     (Universal Agent Skills location)
```

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## 📦 Skills Included

| Skill | Description | When to Use |
|-------|-------------|-------------|
| **[people-science-core-reasoning](./people-science-core-reasoning/)** | Foundational reasoning model for any people-related decision | Always — load this first for HR, talent, org behavior, or compensation questions |
| **[compensation-decisioning](./compensation-decisioning/)** | Pay structures, internal equity, market positioning, incentives, and behavioral consequences | Analyzing or designing pay systems, equity, incentives, or total rewards |
| **[hr-analytics-decisioning](./hr-analytics-decisioning/)** | Translating people questions into measurable variables, analytical designs, and decisions | Turning HR questions into metrics, research designs, models, or decision systems |
| **[organizational-behavior-decisioning](./organizational-behavior-decisioning/)** | Distinguishing behavioral mechanisms from assumptions, evaluating culture, motivation, leadership, and interventions | Analyzing culture, engagement, motivation, team dynamics, leadership, or change interventions |

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## 🧠 Core Philosophy

People and organizations are complex.  
Good decisions start with better questions and are grounded in:

1. **Human Behavior & Psychology**
2. **First-Principles Thinking**
3. **Evidence & Empirical Research**

Everything else — frameworks, models, policies, recommendations — is an *output* of this reasoning, not a starting point.

### The Reasoning Sequence

> **Question → Behavior → First Principles → Evidence → Context → Alternatives → Trade-offs → Decision → Repeatability**

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## 📄 License

This project is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE).