Manager Kung Fu 🥋

A curated collection of Claude Skills for engineering and product managers.

Manager Kung Fu 🥋

A Claude Skills collection for engineering and product managers

License: MIT Contributions Welcome

Manager Kung Fu is a curated library of Claude Skills purpose-built for engineering and product leaders. Every skill is contributed by a practitioner who has used it in their own management work — and packages not just a prompt, but the distilled knowledge that makes it effective.

What are Claude Skills?

Claude Skills are installable packages that give Claude a specific, well-defined capability. Each skill is a directory with a SKILL.md entry point (YAML frontmatter + routing logic), references/ files with distilled knowledge, and a company/ layer with placeholder fields you fill in once to tailor the skill to your organization. Claude invokes a skill automatically when your conversation matches its description, or you call it directly with /skill-name. This repo follows the Agent Skills open standard that Claude Code and Claude.ai implement natively. For a full primer, see docs/what-are-claude-skills.md.

Skills Index

SkillCategoryStatusDescription
okr-masteryStrategy & Planning✅ ReadyDraft, review, refine, and score OKRs using a structured six-workflow methodology
performance-reviewManagement & People✅ ReadyDraft, evaluate, and deliver engineering performance reviews for ICs and managers

Status key: ✅ Ready · 🚧 In Progress · 📋 Planned

How to Use

Each skill is a directory with three layers: routing logic in SKILL.md, distilled knowledge in references/, and a company/ folder with placeholder fields you fill in once to ground every future invocation in your org's reality.

Claude Code (Recommended)

Claude Code discovers skills automatically — no manual loading needed.

  1. Browse the Skills Index and pick a skill.
  2. Fill in company/context.md in that skill's folder with your organization's details.
  3. Copy the skill directory to your personal skills folder (available across all projects): 
    cp -r skills/okr-mastery ~/.claude/skills/
    Or to your project's skills folder (this project only): 
    cp -r skills/okr-mastery .claude/skills/
  4. Claude will auto-invoke the skill when your conversation matches its description, or call it directly with /okr-mastery.

Claude.ai / Claude Desktop

Skills are uploaded as ZIP files and enabled under Customize → Skills.

  1. Fill in company/context.md in the skill folder with your details.
  2. ZIP the skill folder (the folder itself must be the ZIP root): 
    zip -r okr-mastery.zip skills/okr-mastery/
  3. In Claude, go to Customize → Skills → + → Create skill → Upload a skill.
  4. Upload the ZIP and enable the skill.
  5. Claude auto-activates it when relevant, or invoke directly with /okr-mastery.

Note: Skills require code execution to be enabled. Go to Settings → Capabilities and enable it if prompted.

For the full guide — including how the company context layer works — see docs/what-are-claude-skills.md.

Contributing

We only accept skills from practitioners who have used them in their own management work and found them genuinely valuable. A great skill also carries distilled knowledge — the essential principles and frameworks that make the output trustworthy, not just a prompt that formats text. If that sounds like something you've built, read the Contributing Guide.

Roadmap

Skills in progress or on the backlog:

  • 1:1-mastery 📋 — structure, run, and follow up on high-signal weekly 1:1s
  • hiring-rubric 📋 — turn a job description into a structured interview scorecard with leveled criteria
  • incident-postmortem 📋 — facilitate a blameless postmortem writeup from a timeline of events
  • team-health-survey 📋 — craft a concise, psychologically-safe team health pulse survey
  • promotion-packet 📋 — compile evidence and narrative for an IC or manager promotion case

License

MIT © 2026 Dmitrii I. — see LICENSE for details.