manage-glue-workers

manage-glue-workers is a skill for Claude Code from shwetank/bettersense. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A management guide for supporting engineers whose main contributions involve onboarding, documentation, removing blockers, and improving processes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recognise glue work, protect time and energy, make the impact visible, and plan career growth for individual contributors.
Why use it?
It helps prevent this often-uncredited work from causing burnout or being overlooked in career decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the bettersense plugin — 54 skills, 22 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to recognise glue work, protect time and energy, make the impact visible, and plan career growth for individual contributors.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shwetank/bettersense/manage-glue-workers
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.

Any agent
npx skills add shwetank/bettersense --skill manage-glue-workers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shwetank/bettersense

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bettersense, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 22 agents.

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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,352 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 unknown 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 $0.00122 $0.02352
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01176
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00235

Measured 12d ago against content hash a787f4cdf8b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

manage-glue-workers 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.

plugin/skills/manage-glue-workers/SKILL.md · 153 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 12d ago First seen · 153 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A a787f4cdf8b9

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manage-glue-workers is a skill published in the GitHub repository shwetank/bettersense (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,352 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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