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manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Prepares agendas, diagnoses struggling 1:1 relationships, and gives frameworks for running effective 1:1 meetings with direct reports. Use when the user wants to prepare for, run, improve, or follow up on a 1:1, or says "1:1 agenda," "prepare for my 1:1," "1:1 notes," "what should I talk about with," "my direct…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Explains business financial terms and frameworks for engineering managers — produces term definitions (ARR, COGS, CAC, LTV, gross margin, burn rate, EBITDA, AARRR), translation formulas for making engineering work visible in business language, and a three-layer framework for building business credibility. Use when the…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers support direct report growth — produces a stage-by-stage model of engineering impact (Circles of Influence), a framework for non-linear career planning (Tarzan Method), diagnostic signals for stalled growth, conversation scripts for career talks, and a promotion readiness vs. timing…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Guides managers out of the bottleneck role — provides the Team Rep pattern, Epic Ownership model, Task-Relevant Maturity framework, kingdom ownership, and three-layer assignment strategy. Use when the user wants to delegate work or says "I'm doing everything," "team isn't taking ownership," "I can't let go," "team…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers measure and improve team delivery — produces a history of why common metrics fail, the DORA four-key-metrics framework (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR), DevEx's three dimensions (feedback loops, cognitive load, flow state), a translation layer from engineering…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Provides situational playbooks for high-stakes edge cases that don't fit the standard management toolkit — produces step-by-step guidance for inappropriate team behavior, an engineer badmouthing your manager, letting someone go when circumstances are hard, manager quitting guilt, and handling layoffs (for both those…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Foundation skill for engineering managers. Use when setting up context about your team, org structure, management philosophy, and current priorities. All other EM skills read this first. Also use when creating or updating a direct report profile. Trigger phrases: "set my team context," "update my EM context," "here's…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Score an Engineering Manager's coverage across all 12 cells of the EM Grid based on their calendar and Slack. Use this skill whenever someone wants to understand where they're spending their management energy, find blind spots, get a monthly self-reflection on their EM focus, or hear phrases like "score my EM grid"…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers understand and act on what drives each engineer — produces a three-driver framework (Growth, Connection, Impact), techniques for identifying someone's primary driver, driver-aligned delegation patterns, and a team composition diagnostic. Use when the user says "this person isn't motivated,"…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Covers both giving and getting feedback — structures and scripts feedback conversations (positive, constructive, or behavioral) and provides techniques for drawing honest feedback from your own team. Produces SBI-framed feedback statements, opening lines for hard conversations, scripts for real situations, ways to…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps structure the interview process, calibrate the hiring bar, counter interview bias, and decide between promoting internally vs. hiring externally. Also covers evaluating a new hire's fit during their first 90 days. Use when the user says "interview," "hire," "job description," "JD," "interview loop," "debrief,"…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Equips engineering managers with persuasion techniques and positioning strategies for getting things done without direct authority — produces tactical methods (Nemawashi, Decoy Pricing, Reverse Psychology, LMDTFY, Engineered Serendipity), conversation techniques for disarming resistance (Label the Concern, Get to…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers break down knowledge silos and build sustainable documentation and collaboration practices — produces a four-root-cause diagnostic for silos, an Engineering Guilds framework, a minimum-viable documentation approach using ADRs, a structured onboarding model, and a cross-team request decision…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers navigate role transitions — produces a four-type framework for first management roles (Apprentice, Successor, Pioneer, New Boss), an acquisition integration model, guidance for counseling engineers on the management track, a Blue Tape List method for new roles, a broken team turnaround…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Guides engineering managers through the specific challenges of managing top engineers — produces a four-quadrant ability/confidence diagnostic, the Rock Star vs. Superstar distinction, common mistakes to avoid, a stagnation diagnostic (Diminishing XP), and a Pusher vs. Puller framework for managing burnout and team…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps EMs build a reliable relationship with their manager, navigate disagreements with leadership, and communicate upward effectively. Use when the user says "managing up," "my manager," "I disagree with a decision," "I need to push back," "my skip level," "communicating with leadership," "my manager committed my…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers respond to high-urgency requests and use deadlines effectively — produces a five-question framework for evaluating unreasonable deadlines, guidance on scope/staffing/intensity decisions under pressure, Parkinson's Law applied to engineering, and five common deadline mistakes to avoid. Use…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps EMs assess their own effectiveness, avoid common traps, navigate bad days, and handle recurring tensions in their own mindset and behavior. Use when the user says "I feel stuck," "am I doing this right," "personal development," "EM effectiveness," "blind spots," "bad days," "sanity check on my behavior," "the…
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Skill Claude CodeCodex
Covers the full meeting lifecycle for engineering managers — produces guidance on whether to schedule a meeting, how to run it well, how to protect team focus time, how to kill recurring waste, and how to evaluate a past meeting from a transcript or description. Use when the user says "too many meetings," "meetings…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps diagnose underperformance, structure a performance case, decide whether to put someone on a PIP or let them go, and think through your own manager review. Use when the user says "perf review," "review cycle," "performance calibration," "write a review," "rating," "meets expectations," "performance improvement,"…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers prevent and respond to engineer attrition by diagnosing retention risk, choosing the right intervention, and preparing retention conversations. Use when the user says "developer quit," "attrition," "someone is disengaged," "how do I retain," "engineer is leaving," "developer unhappy,"…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers plan roadmaps, prioritize work, and communicate priorities effectively — produces the 20% tech debt framework (and its 5 traps), a phased release pressure-test, a maintenance cost model, the Always Green delivery method, sprint anti-patterns, hidden costs of custom features, a critical…
manager-dot-dev/manager-skills
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps engineering managers identify, quantify, and reduce hidden capacity drains that make teams miss commitments even when everyone is busy. Use this skill whenever the user mentions invisible work, untracked work, support requests consuming the team, glue work, shadow backlog, sprint spillover, capacity planning…