managing-up SKILL.md skillA
managing-up from modest-curator478/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add modest-curator478/claude-skills/managing-up@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- modest-curator478/claude-skills
- Path
leadership/managing-up/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Mar 29, 2026
- Size
- 13,729 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
AUTO-TRIGGER: Apply this skill when the user is navigating the relationship with their own manager, including a CEO, CRO, VP, or any person they report to directly. Trigger phrases include: "my CEO keeps changing priorities," "my manager is micromanaging," "how do I disagree with my boss," "my CRO doesn't understand marketing," "how do I get more autonomy," "I disagree with this directive," "my manager wants me to do X but I think Y is right," "how do I keep leadership informed without…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Managing Up: Building the Relationship That Earns Autonomy This skill addresses the relationship between a Director-level demand gen or RevOps leader and the person they report to: a CEO, CRO, VP of Marketing, or other executive. The goal is not to manage around the manager. The goal is to build enough trust and communication quality that the manager stops needing to manage closely, because they have confidence in what is happening and what will happen. Most friction in the upward relationship is a communication problem, not a competence problem. The manager micromanages because they are uncertain. They change priorities because they do not trust that the current priorities are right. They get pulled into details because they have not seen evidence that the details are being handled. Fixing the communication often fixes the relationship. This skill does not assume the manager is right and the practitioner is wrong. Sometimes the directive is genuinely bad. Sometimes the manager does not understand the function well enough to evaluate the program. This skill addresses both situations: how to work effectively with a good manager and how to professionally push back on a bad …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add modest-curator478/claude-skills/managing-up@sha256:e817e9a8bac81da9The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2qhf5k6wbct5xxhr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13729 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
modest-curator478/claude-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2qhf5k6wbct5xxhr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=modest-curator478/claude-skills/managing-up GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e817e9a8bac81da954c1fd469f16d4dbfc959440298675da742de6c40ccfe166
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.