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.
npx skills add cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill managing-upgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/managing-up)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/managing-up"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/managing-up/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/managing-up"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/managing-up.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.01297 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00648 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00259 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00130 |
Grade A, and why
managing-up 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 12d 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 — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Managing Up
Help the user work effectively with their manager and executives using strategies from 35 product leaders.
How to Help
When the user asks for help managing up:
- Understand the relationship - Ask about their manager's style, what they care about, and where the friction or challenge is
- Diagnose the gap - Determine if this is a communication issue, alignment issue, trust issue, or visibility issue
- Apply the right approach - Help them choose between proactive updates, reframing conversations, building trust through wins, or direct feedback conversations
- Build sustainable habits - Guide them toward ongoing practices rather than one-time fixes
Core Principles
Your manager is a resource to leverage, not an obstacle
Boz: "The advice I give more frequently than any other is for people to more directly leverage their leaders." Your primary job is to achieve results. Your manager has tools and authority to clear paths. Ask for help to bulldoze blockers rather than trying to solve everything yourself.
Proactively communicate before they have to ask
Casey Winters: "People just way under communicate upward. Then they complain that executives are out of touch when they aren't telling executives what they need to know." Send weekly "state of" emails with priorities, blockers, and thoughts. Frame updates as "no response required" to keep leaders informed without creating burden.
Understand two levels up
Fareed Mosavat: "You should understand your boss's priorities and your boss's boss's priorities. Eventually, that means you have to know what the board is thinking." Build a mental model of how your work creates leverage in the larger system. Tailor communication to address senior leadership's specific concerns.
Bring recommendations, not just problems
Wes Kao: "When you ask 'Hey manager, what should we do?' you're putting a lot of cognitive load on them. Instead say 'Hey manager, here's what I think we should do.'" Present a point of view even if it's just an initial hunch. Provide insights and takeaways, not just raw data.
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 84 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a6ad6aed1cc2
managing-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,297 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 2026-08-30.
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