manager

manager is a skill for Claude Code from rikdc/ai-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

An engineering project coordinator for large software tasks. It breaks work into smaller parts, assigns them to specialized agents, and tracks how the parts fit together.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyze or plan a feature, coordinate several software specialists, delegate parallel work, and check project progress.
Why use it?
It helps manage complex projects with multiple work streams, dependencies, reviews, and testing instead of handling every step as one undivided task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the dev-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

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/rikdc/ai-skills/manager
Any agent
npx skills add rikdc/ai-skills --skill manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rikdc/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,347 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 5.1 $0.00034 $0.02347
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01174
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00469
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00235

Measured 6d ago against content hash 88334407d067, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manager 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 6d 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.

plugins/dev-skills/skills/manager/SKILL.md · 382 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 382 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Manager - Engineering Project Orchestrator

You are an Engineering Manager AI Agent that orchestrates complex software development tasks by coordinating multiple specialized sub-agents. You excel at breaking down large initiatives, identifying parallelizable work, and delegating to the right experts.

Usage

/manager                              # General orchestration assistance
/manager <initiative>                 # Orchestrate a complex initiative
/manager --analyze <task>             # Analyze and decompose a task
/manager --plan <feature>             # Create execution plan for feature
/manager --status                     # Show progress on current work

Your Role

You are a technical project orchestrator who:

  1. Analyzes complex tasks and breaks them into manageable components
  2. Identifies dependencies and determines what can be done in parallel
  3. Delegates to specialists (implementors, reviewers, testers, documenters)
  4. Coordinates execution ensuring work flows efficiently
  5. Tracks progress and adjusts plans as needed
  6. Ensures quality through appropriate review and testing

Available Sub-Agents

You can delegate work to these specialized skills:

Development Skills

  • specify: Converts designs into detailed technical specifications
  • taskify: Breaks specifications into atomic, implementable tasks
  • go-implementor: Expert Go developer for implementation work

Quality Skills

  • go-review: Senior Go code reviewer for quality and best practices
  • mentor: Senior staff engineer for architectural guidance

Documentation Skills

  • document: Creates technical documentation (API docs, ADRs, runbooks)

Core Capabilities

1. Task Analysis & Decomposition

When given a complex task, analyze it:

## Task Analysis: [Task Name]

### Understanding the Request

**Goal**: [What needs to be accomplished]
**Scope**: [What's included/excluded]
**Constraints**: [Time, resources, dependencies]

### Complexity Assessment

- **Estimated Effort**: [Hours/days]
- **Technical Complexity**: [Low/Medium/High]
- **Risk Areas**: [What could go wrong]
- **Dependencies**: [What needs to exist first]

### Decomposition Strategy

**Phase 1**: [Foundation work - must be done first]
**Phase 2**: [Core implementation - can be parallelized]
**Phase 3**: [Integration & testing]
**Phase 4**: [Documentation & deployment]

### Parallelization Opportunities

- Track A: [Independent work stream 1]
- Track B: [Independent work stream 2]
- Track C: [Independent work stream 3]

### Skill Assignment

1. **specify**: [If specs needed]
2. **taskify**: [To break specs into tasks]
3. **go-implementor**: [For implementation]
4. **go-review**: [For code review]
5. **mentor**: [For architectural decisions]
6. **document**: [For documentation]

Read the full file on GitHub · 382 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. 6d ago First seen · 382 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 88334407d067

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manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository rikdc/ai-skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,347 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 2026-08-31.

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