Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus --skill managing-upgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plusWrote 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/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/managing-up)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/managing-up"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/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/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/managing-up"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/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 | $0.00024 | $0.02220 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.01110 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00444 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00222 |
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 — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Managing Up
Scope
Covers
- Building a proactive partnership with your manager (vs waiting to be managed)
- Setting a clear upward communication system (async updates, 1:1 structure, decision memos)
- Leveraging leaders to remove blockers and accelerate decisions (clear asks + escalation triggers)
- Communicating trade-offs and context so leadership can make good calls
- Creating a “seat at the table” path: showing business-level perspective before you’re invited
- Setting boundaries when leadership pace/expectations are misaligned (without being adversarial)
When to use
- “Help me manage up with my boss—set a cadence and a weekly update template.”
- “My exec stakeholders feel out of touch—help me communicate context and trade-offs better.”
- “I need a clean escalation plan and how to ask my leader for help without sounding needy.”
- “I want more influence / a seat at the table—create a plan and artifacts.”
When NOT to use
- You need HR/legal guidance (harassment, discrimination, retaliation, threats, investigations) — follow your company process and involve HR/legal.
- You’re negotiating compensation/title or a formal performance process — use your company process; this skill can help with communication artifacts but not with policy/legal strategy.
- You have a personal safety or mental-health crisis — seek professional help and follow company policy.
- You want to set up a cross-functional collaboration system across multiple teams (use
cross-functional-collaboration). - You want to design your 1:1 cadence, coaching toolkit, or career conversation system (use
running-effective-1-1s). - You need to delegate work effectively to your own reports (use
delegating-work). - You need broad buy-in from multiple stakeholders beyond your direct manager (use
stakeholder-alignment).
Inputs
Minimum required
- Your role, scope, and current priorities (what you own; what “good” looks like in the next 4–8 weeks)
- Who you’re managing up to (manager level; decision power; relationship stage: new/stable/strained)
- Current friction (2–5 concrete examples) and desired outcome (clarity, autonomy, speed, influence, boundaries)
- Communication environment (remote/hybrid, time zones, tools, meeting cadence)
- Constraints (sensitive topics, confidentiality/PII rules, upcoming deadlines)
What ships with it
13 files 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.
- eval/eval_config.json 1.7 KB
- eval/SHOWCASE.md 5.5 KB
- eval/with_skill.md 31 KB
- eval/without_skill.md 17 KB
- README.md 1.2 KB
- references/CHECKLISTS.md 1.8 KB
- references/EXAMPLES.md 870 B
- references/INTAKE.md 1.7 KB
- references/RUBRIC.md 2.3 KB
- references/SOURCE_SUMMARY.md 1.8 KB
- references/TEMPLATES.md 3.5 KB
- references/WORKFLOW.md 4.4 KB
- skillpack.json 349 B
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 · 139 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A b0f59250adad
managing-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,220 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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