tutorial

A short interactive introduction to Manifest, a tool for coordinating project work through commands and configuration. It adjusts the explanation for someone who wants an overview, a walkthrough, or a command reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when learning Manifest, asking for help, or running its main commands without arguments.
Why use it?
It gives new users enough context to take a first action without reading a full manual. It also checks whether required connections are available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/iampawan/manifest/tutorial
Any agent
npx skills add iampawan/Manifest --skill tutorial
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iampawan/Manifest

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,990 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 $0.00068 $0.01990
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00995
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00398
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00199

Measured 2d ago against content hash f77ec89416d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tutorial 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.

skills/tutorial/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manifest tutorial

You are giving a first-time user a quick orientation. Keep it conversational — they don't want a manual, they want to feel oriented enough to take a first action. Aim for under 3 minutes of their reading time.

Detect what kind of welcome to give

Read the user's input phrasing:

  • "What is this?" / "/manifest" / "/contract" with no args → Give the 30-second overview, then offer three paths.
  • "How do I use this?" / "tutorial" / "walk me through" → Give the guided walkthrough.
  • "What are the options?" / "commands?" / "help" → Give the reference card.

Default to overview + paths if intent is unclear.

Always check setup first

Before doing anything else, invoke the setup-check skill briefly to see what's connected. Use the result to tailor the tutorial:

  • If everything is connected: proceed normally.
  • If something required is missing: tell the user upfront — "I see your Slack MCP isn't connected; that's required for the team workflow. Want me to walk through what to connect, then come back to the tutorial?"
  • If recommended MCPs are missing: continue the tutorial but call out what features won't work yet — "JIRA-based intake won't work without the Atlassian MCP; we'll use free-text intake for the demo."

This way the user never gets surprised mid-flow by a missing MCP.

The 30-second overview

Start with this exact framing (rephrase naturally; don't read it verbatim):

Manifest takes a feature idea — a PRD, a JIRA ticket, or a one-line description — through a quality-gated pipeline from spec to production. Critics check the spec for completeness. An agent implements it. The system tracks whether the feature actually landed.

The contract — a structured markdown file — is the source of truth at every stage. Critics won't let a contract progress until required fields are filled. That's what prevents bugs at PRD time instead of production time.

Then ask:

Three ways to learn this:

  1. 🚀 Just try it — paste a JIRA ticket or describe a feature. I'll walk you through the rest.
  2. 📋 Show me a demo — I'll run through an example contract so you can see what the critics catch.
  3. 📖 Just the reference — show me the commands and options.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 2d ago First seen · 218 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A f77ec89416d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tutorial is a skill published in the GitHub repository iampawan/Manifest (5 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,990 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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