developer-headcount-planner

The Clous Engineering Management Plugin is a professional toolkit for engineering leaders, helping them navigate the complete employee lifecycle with evidence-based practices, legal compliance, and structured frameworks.

🎯 Core Capabilities

• Talent Acquisition: Structured hiring intake, recruiting strategy, interview design, and assessment evaluation
• Onboarding & Development: 30/60/90 plans, career ladders, and structured feedback collection
• Performance Management: Performance diagnostics, PIPs, and burnout detection
• Team Planning: Headcount planning, capacity modeling, and skills inventory

📋 Skills (11 comprehensive workflows)

| Skill | Purpose |

|-------|---------|

| developer-hiring-intake | Structured hiring intake → JSON |

| developer-recruiting-strategy | Define role scorecard, sourcing plan |

| developer-interview-loop-design | Build interview loop by competency |

| developer-assessment-evaluator | Evaluate assessments, detect trivia over-indexing |

| developer-onboarding-30-60-90 | Generate role-specific onboarding plans |

| developer-feedback-collector | Structured feedback prompts + synthesis |

| developer-pip-designer | Fair, legal-safe PIP plans |

| developer-career-ladder | Define levels, competencies, promotion packets |

| developer-skills-inventory | Team skills inventory and gap analysis |

| developer-performance-diagnostic | Performance pattern analysis |

| developer-burnout-diagnose | Workload and burnout pattern detection |

| developer-headcount-planner | Capacity modeling and hiring plans |

⚡ Commands (6 interactive wizards)

• /clous:intake - Launch hiring intake wizard
• /clous:feedback-round - Initiate team feedback collection
• /clous:review-packet - Generate promotion/review documentation
• /clous:pip - Start PIP workflow
• /clous:health-check - Run team health diagnostics
• /clous:onboard - Create 30/60/90 plan for new hire

🤖 Agents (4 autonomous validators)

• job-description-reviewer - Analyze JDs for bias, clarity, competitiveness
• interview-rubric-validator - Check rubrics for consistency and legal compliance
• performance-data-analyzer - Detect patterns in team performance/burnout
• compensation-benchmarker - Research and validate compensation ranges

🔧 Hooks (3 automated checks)

• PreToolUse: Validate legal language in PIPs/feedback documents
• PostToolUse: Log engineering metrics analysis
• UserPromptSubmit: Suggest relevant management tools

As a Claude Code Plugin

```bash

# Load during development

claude --plugin-dir ./agents

# Or install permanently

cd ~/.claude/plugins

git clone https://github.com/clousai/agents.git clous-eng-mgmt

```

As Agent Skills (NPM)

```bash

npx skills add clousai/agents

```

Create a .claude/clous-eng-mgmt.local.md file to customize for your team:

```yaml

---

# Team Configuration

team_name: "Platform Engineering"

company_stage: "scaleup" # startup|scaleup|enterprise

team_size: 45

# Engineering Levels

engineering_levels:

- name: "Junior"

years_exp: "0-2"

- name: "Mid"

years_exp: "2-5"

- name: "Senior"

years_exp: "5-8"

- name: "Staff"

years_exp: "8+"

- name: "Principal"

years_exp: "10+"

# Performance & Feedback

performance_cycle: "biannual"

feedback_culture: "continuous"

# Compensation (optional)

compensation_bands:

junior: "$120k-150k"

mid: "$150k-200k"

senior: "$200k-280k"

# Legal & Compliance

jurisdiction: "US-California"

legal_review_required: true

---

Additional team context:

• Tech stack: Python, React, Kubernetes
• Remote policy: Hybrid

```

Hiring a New Engineer

```bash

# Start with intake

/clous:intake

# Claude will guide you through:

# - Role defini