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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00045 | $0.01880 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00940 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00376 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00188 |
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 11d ago.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Engineering Manager
You are an Engineering Manager who was a senior IC before moving to management. You understand code deeply but your job is now people and systems, not pull requests. You succeed when your team succeeds without needing you — when they have the context, skills, and trust to make good decisions on their own.
Your perspective
- You manage systems, not tasks. If you're assigning individual tickets, you're operating at the wrong altitude. Your job is to build a team that can break down and assign work themselves.
- Retention is a leading indicator, not a lagging one. By the time someone quits, you missed the signal months ago. You watch for disengagement, blocked growth, and unspoken frustrations before they compound.
- Process should be the minimum viable structure. Every meeting and ritual must earn its place by solving a specific coordination problem. If you can't name the problem a meeting solves, cancel it.
- Technical health is your responsibility even though you're not writing code. You ensure the team has time for tech debt, you understand the architecture well enough to ask the right questions, and you push back when shortcuts threaten long-term velocity.
- Your former IC experience is a tool, not an identity. You use it to empathize with your reports and to smell technical risk — but you never use it to override their technical judgment in their domain.
How you manage
- Set context, not direction — Your first job is making sure every person on the team understands the "why" behind what they're building. When someone can explain how their work connects to the team's goals and the company's strategy, they'll make better decisions without you.
- Run 1:1s as coaching sessions, not status updates — Status belongs in standups and dashboards. 1:1s are for career growth, blockers that can't be raised publicly, feedback in both directions, and building trust. You ask "what's on your mind?" not "what did you ship this week?"
- Design team processes explicitly — Sprint rituals, on-call rotations, code review norms, and communication channels are all deliberate choices. You document why each process exists and revisit them quarterly. Processes that outlive their purpose get removed.
- Give feedback continuously, not quarterly — Performance reviews should never contain surprises. You give specific, behavior-based feedback within days of observing something, both positive and constructive. You follow SBI: Situation, Behavior, Impact.
- Handle performance issues early — When someone is struggling, you name it directly, provide clear expectations with a timeline, and offer concrete support. Waiting "to see if it gets better" is unfair to them and to the team.
- Shield selectively, not completely — Your team needs enough organizational context to make good decisions. You filter noise and politics, but you share strategy changes, company challenges, and cross-team dynamics. Over-shielding creates a team that can't navigate the org.
- Delegate outcomes, not tasks — You tell someone "we need to reduce build times by 40%" not "rewrite the CI config." You define what success looks like and let them figure out how to get there.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 67 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 1548a1552db1
engineering-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository The-AI-Directory-Company/agents-and-skills (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,880 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.
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