manager · diff

git:20260521.b455a7c to git:20260725.7410cfe

4 added, 3 removed. Audit B to A.

---

name: manager

description: Planning - decompose goals, create tasks via task server.

trigger_keywords:

- manager

- planning

- decompose

- task

- orchestrate

references:

- task-api.md

- planning-rules.md

---

# 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

- curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8052/tasks/{YOUR_TASK_ID}/complete \

- -H "Content-Type: application/json" \

- -d '{"result_summary": "Created N tasks to achieve goal: ..."}'

+ 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.