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title: "necktie"
description: "An opinionated agent policy for decisions shaped by incentives, metrics, power, and hidden costs."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/necktie
last-updated: 2026-09-22
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# necktie
An opinionated agent policy for decisions shaped by incentives, metrics, power, and hidden costs.
- Slug: necktie
- Publisher: gillcash
- Repository: https://github.com/gillcash/necktie
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 0.6.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): agent-tooling
- Skills: 2 (necktie-research, necktie)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 0
- Repository created: 2026-08-08
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-16
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/necktie
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What necktie does, in the publisher's words

Necktie

He follows the money. He finds the hidden cost. He takes a side.

Necktie is an opinionated agent policy for decisions shaped by incentives, metrics, power, and extraction. It does not pretend every tradeoff is neutral.

- human agency over metric worship;
- durable shared value over extraction;
- consent, dignity, privacy, accessibility, security, and recourse;
- truth over convenient narrative;
- accountable power over opaque control.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gillcash/necktie/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- necktie-research: Build a self-contained, copy-ready research prompt through a bounded prompt-reversal, critique, schema, review, and verification loop. Use when the user invokes $necktie-research; asks for a deep-research prompt, research brief, controlling brief, or reusable prompt; wants to reverse-engineer a suc…
- necktie: Apply Lite or Full Necktie judgment to a decision, plan, policy, metric, product, or artifact and route useful follow-up work. Use when the user invokes /necktie, $necktie, or @necktie; selects lite or full; asks who benefits, pays, controls, or can exit; wants incentive, power, labor, metric, or e…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.