Culture Index

Culture Index

Interprets Culture Index survey results for individuals and teams.

Author: Dan Guido

When to Use

Use this skill when you need to:

• Interpret an individual's Culture Index profile
• Analyze team composition for gas/brake/glue balance
• Detect burnout signals by comparing Survey vs Job traits
• Compare multiple profiles for compatibility
• Get motivator recommendations for specific trait types

What It Does

This skill provides expert interpretation of Culture Index behavioral assessments:

• Relative Interpretation - Always uses distance from arrow, never absolute values
• Survey vs Job Analysis - Identifies behavior modification and energy drain
• Pattern Recognition - Maps profiles to 19 archetypes
• Team Analysis - Assesses gas/brake/glue balance and gaps
• Burnout Detection - Calculates energy utilization and flags risk

Installation

/plugin install trailofbits/skills/plugins/culture-index

The plugin ships one skill, interpreting-culture-index. It triggers on its own when you bring it a profile; invoke it directly with /culture-index:interpreting-culture-index.

Key Concepts

Trait Colors

Trait	Color	Measures
A	Maroon	Autonomy, initiative
B	Yellow	Social ability
C	Blue	Pace/Patience
D	Green	Conformity, detail
L	Purple	Logic
I	Cyan	Ingenuity

Energy Utilization

Utilization = (Job EU / Survey EU) x 100

70-130% = Healthy
>130% = STRESS (burnout risk)
<70% = FRUSTRATION (flight risk)

Gas/Brake/Glue Framework

Role	Trait	Function
Gas	High A	Growth, risk-taking
Brake	High D	Quality control
Glue	High B	Relationships, morale

Input Formats

• JSON - Extracted profiles from culture-index tool (recommended)
• PDF - Direct PDF analysis using Claude's vision

Workflows

• interpret-individual.md - Single profile analysis
• analyze-team.md - Team composition assessment
• detect-burnout.md - Stress/frustration detection
• compare-profiles.md - Multi-profile compatibility

Reference Documents

• primary-traits.md - A, B, C, D trait details
• secondary-traits.md - EU, L, I trait details
• patterns-archetypes.md - 19 patterns and archetypes
• motivators.md - Engagement strategies by trait
• team-composition.md - Gas/brake/glue framework
• anti-patterns.md - Common interpretation mistakes