managing-up

managing-up is a skill for Claude Code from matellez/claude-skills. It costs 242 tokens per session (2,884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for improving the working relationship with your manager, such as a CEO, CRO, or vice president. It focuses on communication, trust, changing priorities, micromanagement, and professional disagreement.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set expectations, report progress, handle changing priorities, earn more independence, and disagree constructively with a manager.
Why use it?
It helps reduce uncertainty that can lead to excessive oversight or shifting instructions. It also gives a way to push back when a manager's direction is not sound.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to set expectations, report progress, handle changing priorities, earn more independence, and disagree constructively with a manager.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/matellez/claude-skills/managing-up
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add matellez/claude-skills --skill managing-up
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matellez/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 242 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,884 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00242 $0.02884
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.01442
Sonnet 5 $0.00048 $0.00577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00288

Measured 10d ago against content hash e817e9a8bac8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

leadership/managing-up/SKILL.md · 330 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 330 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing Up: Building the Relationship That Earns Autonomy

This skill addresses the relationship between a Director-level demand gen or RevOps leader and the person they report to: a CEO, CRO, VP of Marketing, or other executive. The goal is not to manage around the manager. The goal is to build enough trust and communication quality that the manager stops needing to manage closely, because they have confidence in what is happening and what will happen.

Most friction in the upward relationship is a communication problem, not a competence problem. The manager micromanages because they are uncertain. They change priorities because they do not trust that the current priorities are right. They get pulled into details because they have not seen evidence that the details are being handled. Fixing the communication often fixes the relationship.

This skill does not assume the manager is right and the practitioner is wrong. Sometimes the directive is genuinely bad. Sometimes the manager does not understand the function well enough to evaluate the program. This skill addresses both situations: how to work effectively with a good manager and how to professionally push back on a bad directive.


HOW TO SET UP THIS SKILL

Provide:

  • Who you report to: CEO, CRO, VP of Marketing, or other
  • How long the relationship has existed
  • The specific friction or challenge: micromanagement, changing priorities, disagreement on strategy, lack of autonomy, or something else
  • Whether this is a new relationship you want to start well, or an existing relationship you need to repair or improve
  • What you have already tried

Diagnosing the Type of Upward Friction


Type 1: The manager who does not understand the function

A CEO or CRO who came up through sales often does not have a practitioner's understanding of demand gen or RevOps. They know what they want the function to produce (pipeline, revenue, data clarity) but not how it works. This produces friction when they give directives that are technically wrong, question decisions that are correct, or set expectations that are disconnected from how long things actually take.

Read the full file on GitHub · 330 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. 10d ago First seen · 330 lines · 242 tokens per session scan A e817e9a8bac8

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managing-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository matellez/claude-skills (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 242 tokens to every session and 2,884 once invoked, about $0.0012 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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