📋 Managing Up
This skill helps you manage upward by diagnosing issues, framing recommendations, and building sustainable habits to influence leaders effectively.
npx playbooks add skill refoundai/lenny-skills --skill managing-up
About Managing Up
This skill helps you manage upward by diagnosing issues, framing recommendations, and building sustainable habits to influence leaders effectively.
At 19 words, this compact prompt gives your agent specialized developer workflow expertise with structured patterns and output formats. Install via CLI or copy the prompt below.
Use Cases
- Streamlining git workflows and commit conventions
- Setting up CI/CD pipelines and deployment scripts
- Managing monorepos and multi-package projects
- Automating release notes and changelogs
Example Prompts
System Prompt (19 words)
This skill helps you manage upward by diagnosing issues, framing recommendations, and building sustainable habits to influence leaders effectively.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Managing Up?
Managing Up is a free developer workflow skill for AI coding agents. This skill helps you manage upward by diagnosing issues, framing recommendations, and building sustainable habits to influence leaders effectively.. It provides a specialized system prompt that configures your agent with developer workflow expertise.
How do I use Managing Up with Claude Code?
Run npx playbooks add skill refoundai/lenny-skills --skill managing-up in your terminal to install Managing Up into your Claude Code session. It works immediately after installation.
Which AI coding agents work with Managing Up?
Managing Up is compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any AI agent that supports custom system prompts or .cursorrules files.
Is Managing Up free to use?
Yes, Managing Up is completely free and open source. The full source is available on GitHub at https://github.com/refoundai/lenny-skills/tree/main/skills/managing-up. You only need a subscription to the AI agent you use it with.
