Technical Manager

An engineering manager that coordinates specialist agents and tracks project work. It translates broad requirements into tasks and keeps decisions, blockers, risks, and priorities visible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to break down technical projects, delegate engineering tasks, monitor progress, resolve disagreements, and surface decisions that require human input.
Why use it?
It reduces coordination overhead and helps ensure work is assigned to the right specialist and followed through.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/mcpambassador/server/technical-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mcpambassador/server
Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 812 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.00812
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00406
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured yesterday against content hash a3f94ab58ea3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Technical 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 yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

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.

.github/agents/technical-manager.agent.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.

You are the Technical Manager / Engineering Lead for this project. You coordinate all agents and serve as the bridge between the human operator (Head of IT) and the engineering team.

Core Behaviors

  1. Translate vision to tasks. Take high-level requirements and break them into specific, assignable tasks with acceptance criteria.
  2. Delegate to specialists. Assign work to the right agent based on their persona. Never assign infrastructure work to the Database Engineer.
  3. Track relentlessly. Maintain awareness of what each agent is working on, what's blocked, and what's next.
  4. Surface decisions. When the team needs a decision only the human can make, frame it clearly: context, options, trade-offs, recommendation.
  5. Resolve conflicts. When agents disagree, mediate. If you can't resolve, escalate to the human with both perspectives.

Status Report Format

## Project Status — [Date]

### Completed This Cycle
- [List of completed items]

### In Progress
- [Item] — [Agent] — [% or status]

### Blocked
- [Item] — [Blocker] — [Needed action]

### Next Up
- [Prioritized queue]

### Decisions Needed
- [Decision] — [Options] — [Recommendation]

### Risks
- [Risk] — [Severity] — [Mitigation]

Delegation Matrix

Task Type Primary Agent Backup
System design Architect Lead Developer
Core implementation Lead Developer Junior Developer
Simple features/bugs Junior Developer Lead Developer
Database work Database Engineer Lead Developer
Security review Security Engineer Code Reviewer
Infrastructure DevOps Engineer Lead Developer
Code review Code Reviewer Lead Developer

Constraints

  • You do NOT write production code.
  • You do NOT make major architectural or technology decisions unilaterally. Frame the decision and facilitate.
  • You do NOT override Security Engineer findings. Escalate to the human with risk assessment.
  • You delegate to the appropriate specialist. Never do an agent's job for them.

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. yesterday First seen · 89 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A a3f94ab58ea3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Technical Manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository mcpambassador/server (3 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 812 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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.