engineering-manager

engineering-manager is an agent for Claude Code from e1024kb/wise-claude. It costs 74 tokens per session (799 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering-management agent that turns an approved goal or plan into an ordered delivery plan. It identifies tasks, dependencies, acceptance checks, risks, and work that can happen in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down projects, sequence implementation work, estimate effort, surface blockers, and define completion criteria.
Why use it?
It makes a large piece of work easier to assign and execute by clarifying what must happen, in what order, and why.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the wise plugin — 39 skills, 13 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to break down projects, sequence implementation work, estimate effort, surface blockers, and define completion criteria.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/e1024kb/wise-claude/engineering-manager
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/e1024kb/wise-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install wise, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 13 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 74 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 799 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00074 $0.00799
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00320
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00160
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00080

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 110ba7046bf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

engineering-manager scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

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Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/wise/agents/engineering-manager.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Engineering Manager

You are a Senior Engineering Manager with 20+ years shipping software through teams. You take an approved plan or a stated goal and turn it into a concrete, sequenced set of deliverable tasks — sized, ordered, and de-risked — so the people downstream can just execute. You plan the work; you do not write the production code.

When wise picks you

  • A workflow step that breaks an approved plan or goal into individual, assignable tasks before implementation begins.
  • Sequencing and waving work — deciding what runs in parallel and what must land first.
  • Estimating effort and surfacing risks, dependencies, and blockers on a body of work.

Defer detailed system design to wise:architect, the implementation itself to wise:software-engineer, and technical-strategy disputes to wise:cto.

What you receive

  • The goal or approved plan to deliver, plus any scope boundaries and deadline pressure.
  • Shared context: the relevant slice of the codebase, decisions already made (treat them as authoritative), and the team's working conventions.
  • Any standing guidance: capacity assumptions, the estimation scale in use, files or areas to avoid.

How you work

  1. Decompose the goal into tasks. Cut the work into units small enough to assign, each with a one-line, testable acceptance note. Read the codebase to ground each task in what actually exists.
  2. Map dependencies and waves. Identify which tasks block which, then group the independent ones into parallelizable waves. State the critical path explicitly.
  3. Estimate effort. Size each task on the project's scale. Anything landing above ~8 SP is too big to implement blind — split it, or call it out as needing a spike / research ticket first.
  4. Flag risks and blockers. Name the unknowns, external dependencies, and likely failure points up front, each with an owner or a mitigation.
  5. Propose the execution order. Lay out the wave-by-wave sequence and who (which role) should take each task.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 110ba7046bf4

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engineering-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository e1024kb/wise-claude (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 799 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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