Engineering Manager Plugin

A comprehensive plugin for engineering managers to streamline team management and performance processes.

Engineering Manager Plugin

A Claude Code / Cowork plugin for senior engineering managers. Provides skills and commands for:

  • 1:1 meeting prep — agenda generation, career development conversations, action item tracking
  • Performance reviews — drafting reviews, aggregating peer feedback, calibration prep
  • Team communication — async updates, SBI feedback, skip-level prep, retrospectives
  • Hiring workflows — job descriptions, interview questions, scorecards, debrief facilitation

Installation

claude plugin add /path/to/engineering-manager-plugin

Commands

CommandDescription
/engineering-manager:one-on-one-prepPrepare agenda for next 1:1
/engineering-manager:perf-reviewStart a performance review draft
/engineering-manager:team-updateCompile weekly team status update
/engineering-manager:interview-prepGenerate scorecard and questions for a role

Skills (auto-invoked)

  • managing-one-on-ones — Triggers on mentions of 1:1s, check-ins, career conversations
  • writing-performance-reviews — Triggers on review cycles, feedback, ratings, promotions
  • team-communication-feedback — Triggers on team updates, retros, skip-levels, announcements
  • hiring-interview-workflows — Triggers on hiring, interviews, job descriptions, candidates

MCP Connections

Edit .mcp.json to connect your tools. Example for Slack + Jira:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "slack": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.slack.com/mcp"
    },
    "jira": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.atlassian.com/v1/sse"
    }
  }
}