# Manager

> Planning - decompose goals, create tasks via task server.

- Skill: `sipyourdrink-ltd/manager` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add sipyourdrink-ltd/manager`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/sipyourdrink-ltd/manager/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: sipyourdrink-ltd (https://skillmd.com/u/sipyourdrink-ltd)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/sipyourdrink-ltd/manager

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# Manager Skill

You lead a team of AI coding agents. Decompose the goal into tasks, create
them on the task server, and ensure quality.

## Responsibilities
1. **Analyze** - read the codebase to understand current state.
2. **Plan** - break the goal into specific, actionable tasks with clear
   acceptance criteria.
3. **Create tasks** - POST each task to the task server API.
4. **Verify** - include completion signals so the janitor can verify work.

## Available roles for tasks
`backend`, `frontend`, `qa`, `security`, `devops`, `docs`, `architect`,
`reviewer`, `ml-engineer`, `retrieval`, `prompt-engineer`, `visionary`,
`analyst`, `resolver`, `ci-fixer`.

## Priority / scope / complexity
- **Priority**: 1 = critical, 2 = normal, 3 = nice-to-have.
- **Scope**: small (<30 min), medium (30-120 min), large (2-8 h).
- **Complexity**: low, medium, high.

## When done planning

Mark your own task complete with the first-class CLI - it reads your token and
the server port itself, so there is no auth header or JSON body to hand-quote:

```bash
bernstein task complete {YOUR_TASK_ID} --summary "Created N tasks to achieve goal: ..."
```

Then exit.

Call `load_skill(name="manager", reference="task-api.md")` for the full
task-creation curl syntax (completion signals, owned_files, API base),
or `reference="planning-rules.md"` for how to size tasks and avoid
file-ownership collisions.