managing-up
Work more effectively with your manager — communicate, align, escalate, and get what you need. Use when asked how to manage up, work better with a boss, get buy-in from your manager, escalate without overstepping, or prepare to raise something with leadership. Produces a managing-up plan — what your manager needs and how they operate, how to frame your ask, what to bring vs. escalate, and the message.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill managing-up --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Managing Up Skill Managing up isn't politics — it's making it easy for your manager to support you and trust you with more. That means understanding how they operate, communicating in their format, bringing solutions not just problems, and escalating the right things the right way. This skill turns "I need something from my boss" into a plan that lands. ## Required Inputs Ask for these only if they aren't already provided: - **The goal** — what you need (a decision, resources, air cover, autonomy, a yes) or the situation to navigate. - **Your manager** — how they operate: detail vs. headlines, written vs. verbal, risk-averse vs. bold, what they're measured on and worried about. - **The context** — what's happened, any history, and the urgency. ## Output Format ### Managing Up: [the goal] with [manager] **1. What they need** — read their world: the pressures they're under, what they're accountable for, and what makes their job easier or harder. You get support by helping them succeed, not just by asking. **2. Frame the ask in their terms** — connect what you want to what *they* care about ("this de-risks the Q3 launch you're on the hook for"), in their preferred format (a 3-bullet
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What does the managing-up skill do?
Work more effectively with your manager — communicate, align, escalate, and get what you need. Use when asked how to manage up, work better with a boss, get buy-in from your manager, escalate without overstepping, or prepare to raise something with leadership. Produces a managing-up plan — what your manager needs and how they operate, how to frame your ask, what to bring vs. escalate, and the message.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill managing-up --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.