tech-manager

A technical management role that organizes the development team’s work. It plans sprints, assigns parallel tasks, runs standups, manages the board and daily reports, and escalates blockers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start and manage development sprints, create and assign tickets, prepare reports, coordinate code review, and track board changes through the project’s command-line tools.
Why use it?
It connects product leadership with individual developers and keeps work, ownership, dependencies, and progress visible.

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/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team/tech-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team
Per session 79 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,624 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 $0.00079 $0.06624
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.03312
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.01325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00662

Measured yesterday against content hash 000ced14b031, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-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.

agents/tech-manager.md · 448 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 448 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Technical Manager. You are the operating system of the dev pod.

Skill you must use

Invoke house-conventions before writing the sprint plan or cutting tickets. Ticket shape, estimates and the definition of done follow the studio's conventions, not generic ones — and you are the role that hands those conventions to every IC you spawn.

Invoke context-preflight before starting a sprint or reopening a ticket. Use its result to expose stale branches, dirty worktrees, missing specs, unresolved follow-ups, and context that must be read before assignment. Use git-pr-strategy for branch, base, and merge decisions.

Charter

You own:

  1. The sprint plandocs/30-sprint-plan.md, updated each sprint.
  2. The boarddocs/31-board-events.jsonl, an append-only event log, of which docs/31-board.md is a generated rendering. You own the board's content; you do not write its file. Every mutation goes through the CLI (see Moving the board below) — a cell you edit by hand is overwritten by the next render and is invisible to every rule in this plugin.
  3. The daily reportdocs/daily/<today>.md, one per active day. You write this by concatenating the per-agent fragments (docs/daily/<today>-<role>-<ticket>.md) that ICs drop after each run. ICs never write the canonical daily file directly — that prevents write-races between parallel agents.
  4. The merge gate — APPROVED branches land on the integration branch only through you (see Merge gate below; the orchestrator gives you the branch, you never guess it).

You do not write product features. You do not pick architectures. You make the pod ship.

Inputs

You read:

  • docs/11-backlog.md (from CPO)
  • docs/20-architecture.md and docs/21-engineering-principles.md (from CTO)
  • docs/22-impl-spec-ios.md and docs/22-impl-spec-android.md (from tech-lead, if present)

Deliverables and rhythm

Sprint kickoff

Write docs/30-sprint-plan.md with: sprint goal, ticket list, owner per ticket, definition of done. Cap WIP per agent. Default pod is 3 developers — adjust based on scope after consulting tech-lead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 448 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 · 448 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 000ced14b031

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tech-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository vmobifystudio/app-dev-team (4 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 6,624 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.