team-composition-analysis Skill for Claude: What It Does and How to Install It

Makes Claude plan an early-stage startup team: who to hire by stage, salary and equity ranges, and the headcount budget.

Installs: 10.5K; on skills.sh
Stars: 42.1K; on GitHub
Files: 1; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Oct 2026; last repo commit

This is a hiring guide from wshobson's agents collection. SKILL.md covers team structure at pre-seed, seed and Series A, salary benchmarks, equity by role and stage, org design, full-time versus contract, hiring timelines and a headcount budget formula.

references/details.md adds a role-by-role plan for engineering, sales and marketing, product, customer success and G&A. The salary figures are labeled US, 2024, so treat them as a starting point and check current data for your market.

Good for

Founders planning their first hires from pre-seed to Series A
Operators building a hiring budget tied to funding
People setting salary and equity ranges
Investors checking a startup's headcount plan

Install team-composition-analysis

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the team-composition-analysis skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

/plugin marketplace add wshobson/agents
/plugin install startup-business-analyst@claude-code-workflows

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Pick one route. The plugin routes install the whole startup-business-analyst plugin: 1 agent, 3 commands and 5 skills (counted from the plugin folder in the repo tree, which has no hooks or MCP config files). The skills-only routes install just this skill, with no agents or commands.

Built from the package data we hold. Not yet tested by us. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Design optimal team structures, hiring plans, compensation strategies, and equity allocation for early-stage startups from pre-seed through Series A. Use this skill when planning headcount, determining which roles to hire next, setting compensation or equity ranges, designing org structure, or building a hiring budget aligned to funding milestones.

Sections in SKILL.md

Overview
Team Structure by Stage
Pre-Seed (0-$500K ARR)
Seed ($500K-$2M ARR)
Series A ($2M-$10M ARR)
Detailed section: Role-by-Role Planning
Compensation Strategy
Base Salary Benchmarks (US, 2024)
Total Compensation Formula
Geographic Adjustments
Equity Allocation
Equity by Role and Stage
Equity Pool Sizing
Organizational Design
Reporting Structure
Span of Control

Key facts

Author: wshobson (repo owner)
License: MIT
Installs on skills.sh: 10,548 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 42,081 for the whole wshobson/agents repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Last repo commit: Oct 30, 2026
What it includes: 2 files including SKILL.md: references/details.md (role-by-role planning). No scripts
skills.sh audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub: pass; Socket: pass; Snyk: pass (Nov 2, 2026)
Part of: The startup-business-analyst plugin (version 1.0.7) in wshobson/agents. Counted from the plugin folder: 1 agent, 3 commands and 5 skills
Works in: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, GitHub Copilot and Pi, per the README. Skills-only installers ask which tool you use

What it includes

Pre-seed (2-5 people), seed (5-15) and Series A (15-50) with ARR ranges
Team structure by stage
Engineering, sales and marketing, product, customer success and G&A (details.md)
Role-by-role planning
US 2024 base salary ranges, a 1.30x loaded-cost formula and location adjustments
Compensation strategy
Equity by role and stage, option pool sizing and a worked dilution example
Equity allocation
Reporting structures per stage and manager span of control
Organizational design
When to hire and when to use contractors, with hourly rate ranges
Full-time vs contract
Time from opening to hire and time to productivity by level; add a 2-3 month buffer
Hiring velocity
Compensation as a share of revenue, and a headcount budget formula with an example
Budget planning
Eight steps: stage, roles, priorities, compensation, timeline, budget, org chart, equity
Quick start

From the official docs

Questions

How do I install team-composition-analysis?

Use the install box at the top of this page. It offers the startup-business-analyst plugin and two skills-only commands. Pick a skills-only command if you want just this skill without the plugin's other parts.

What does the team-composition-analysis skill do?

It gives Claude a hiring-plan framework for early-stage startups. Claude uses it to propose team size and roles by stage, salary and equity ranges, and a headcount budget.

Are the salary numbers current?

SKILL.md labels its base salary benchmarks "US, 2024". Treat them as a starting point and check current data for your location and role. The equity ranges carry no date in SKILL.md.

Does it replace a lawyer or a compensation consultant?

It is a planning aid with ranges and rules of thumb. Our advice: have equity grants and employment terms checked by a lawyer for your jurisdiction.

Should I install the whole startup-business-analyst plugin?

Only if you want the rest. The plugin folder holds 1 agent, 3 commands and 5 skills, counted from the repo tree, and the tree shows no hooks or MCP config files in it. The other skills are competitive-landscape, market-sizing-analysis, startup-financial-modeling and startup-metrics-framework. The agent is startup-analyst, and the commands are business-case, financial-projections and market-opportunity.

Is team-composition-analysis safe to install?

The folder holds SKILL.md and one reference file, with no scripts. Claude does arithmetic and writes plans from what you tell it. Salary and cap table details are sensitive, so share only what you are comfortable putting in a chat.

Does team-composition-analysis work in Codex, Cursor or the Claude app?

The README documents Claude Code and Codex CLI plugin routes, and skills-only installs for the tools it lists: Cursor, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, GitHub Copilot and Pi. The install box also has a Claude app zip upload for this skill.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: wshobson/agents
Folder: plugins/startup-business-analyst/skills/team-composition-analysis

wshobson/agents skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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team-composition-analysis SKILL.md · github.com
team-composition-analysis references/details.md · github.com
wshobson/agents README · github.com