manager-skills AGENTS.md

Repository instructions for creating Agent Skills for engineering managers. An Agent Skill is a reusable set of instructions, and the document explains the required files, naming rules, structure, and foundation skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Building, reviewing, and organising engineering-management skills in the manager-skills repository.
Why use it?
It gives contributors clear rules for adding or changing skills without breaking the repository’s format or shared context.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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 instructions/manager-dot-dev/manager-skills/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manager-dot-dev/manager-skills

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 324 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 324 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00324 $0.00324
Opus 5 $0.00162 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00065 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00032 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7a86fb26ab8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manager-skills AGENTS.md 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 2d 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.

AGENTS.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

AGENTS.md

Guidelines for AI agents working in this repository.

Repository Overview

This repository contains Agent Skills for engineering managers, following the Agent Skills specification. Skills install to .agents/skills/ (the cross-agent standard).

  • Name: Engineering Management Skills
  • License: MIT

Repository Structure

engineeringmanagementskills/
├── skills/                # Agent Skills
│   └── skill-name/
│       ├── SKILL.md       # Required skill file
│       └── references/    # Optional supporting docs
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── AGENTS.md
├── LICENSE
└── README.md

Skill File Requirements

Every SKILL.md must have valid YAML frontmatter:

---
name: skill-name
description: When to use this skill. Include trigger phrases.
metadata:
  version: 1.0.0
---

Rules:

  • name must match directory name exactly
  • name is 1-64 chars, lowercase alphanumeric + hyphens only
  • description is 1-1024 characters
  • Keep SKILL.md under 500 lines; move reference material to references/

Foundation Skill

em-context is the foundation. All other skills should instruct the agent to read .agents/em-context.md (or .agents/skills/em-context/SKILL.md) before proceeding, so they have team and org context.

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. 2d ago First seen · 48 lines · 324 tokens per session scan A 7a86fb26ab8c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

manager-skills AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository manager-dot-dev/manager-skills (109 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 324 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 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 2026-08-30.