What do I need to use Managing Up?

The goal; Your manager; The context.

Is Managing Up free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Managing Up

Q: How do I know the Managing Up output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The ask is framed in terms of what the manager is accountable for/worried about; It's in the manager's preferred format and altitude (detail vs. headline); Problems come with a recommendation and options, not just the problem; It's clear what you'll handle vs. what genuinely needs their decision.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-06-27 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-comms

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.

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What to give it

▸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.

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The ask is framed in terms of what the manager is accountable for/worried about

✓It's in the manager's preferred format and altitude (detail vs. headline)

✓Problems come with a recommendation and options, not just the problem

✓It's clear what you'll handle vs. what genuinely needs their decision

✓Likely pushback is anticipated and pre-addressed

✓The principle of "no surprises" is honoured (risks flagged early)

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not bring a problem with no recommendation — "what should I do?" offloads your job; bring options + a pick

Do not communicate in your preferred style — match theirs (a detail-lover and a headline-skimmer need different messages)

Do not surprise your manager — surfacing a risk late is the fastest way to lose trust

Do not escalate everything (looks like you can't decide) or nothing (looks like you hide things) — calibrate

Do not frame the ask around what *you* want — connect it to what *they're* measured on

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

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<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

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