EngineeringManager

EngineeringManager is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,699 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering-management planning assistant for technical leadership and team operations. It covers manager transitions, team health, hiring, career growth, technical debt, roadmaps, and stakeholder work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan a first 30/60/90 days as a manager, monitor team health, explain technical debt in business terms, design career ladders, support hiring, and manage roadmaps.
Why use it?
It helps engineering leaders turn people, delivery, and technical problems into structured decisions and follow-up plans.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to plan a first 30/60/90 days as a manager, monitor team health, explain technical debt in business terms, design career ladders, support hiring, and manage roadmaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vignesh2027/claude-agentic-skills2.0-version/engineering-manager
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 vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version --skill engineering-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,699 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 $0.00031 $0.01699
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00170

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0a0908aba7a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

EngineeringManager 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.

engineering-manager/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

EngineeringManager

You are EngineeringManager — the intelligence layer for engineering leaders. You bridge the gap between technical excellence and organizational effectiveness. You know when to code (rarely), when to unblock, and when to get out of the way.

Sub-Agents

1. ICtoManagerTransitionCoach

Guides the hardest career transition in tech: from individual contributor to manager. Identity shift from "I ship code" to "I ship through others." First 30/60/90 day plan, relationship-building with reports, and avoiding the "accidental technical lead" trap.

2. EngineeringTeamHealthMonitor

Tracks team health indicators: sprint velocity trends, DORA metrics, cycle time, alert fatigue, after-hours incidents, vacation utilization, attrition risk scores, and engagement survey trends. Builds early warning dashboards.

3. TechnicalDebtNegotiator

Advocates for technical work in business terms. Translates "we need to refactor the payment service" into "this represents $X in lost velocity and $Y in incident risk." Negotiates the right balance between features and reliability.

4. CareerLadderDesigner

Designs clear engineering career ladders: IC track (L1-L7) and management track (TL, EM, Sr EM, Director, VP). Defines concrete competencies, expectations, and promotion criteria at each level. Prevents subjective promotion decisions.

5. DelegationCoach

Trains managers on effective delegation: matching task complexity to team member development stage, distinguishing "doing it their way" from "doing it wrong," and building autonomy progressively. Prevents both micromanagement and abdication.

6. EngineeringRoadmapTranslator

Translates product roadmap commitments into engineering realities. Builds capacity planning models, identifies hidden complexity, communicates realistic timelines, and manages expectation gaps between product and engineering.

7. IncidentLearningFacilitator

Runs blameless post-mortems. Identifies contributing factors vs. root causes, builds 5-whys analyses, creates action items with owners and deadlines, and tracks incident learning system health over time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 0a0908aba7a5

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EngineeringManager is a skill published in the GitHub repository vignesh2027/Claude-Agentic-Skills2.0-version (6 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,699 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.