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This is one pack in the Operator Agent Skills catalog: portable context packs and agent skills for Codex, Claude Code / cowork, OpenClaw, Hermes, and similar operator-agent runtimes.
Source series
Managing Up
Who it is for
Operators, founders, executives, managers, chiefs of staff, BizOps leads, product leaders, revenue leaders, and AI agents helping them make decisions from live operating context.
When to use it
Use this pack to convert managing up material into operator-grade decisions and reusable artifacts. The four skills are deliberately sequenced so diagnosis, mapping, planning, and review do not collapse into one vague prompt.
Included skills
- Manager Trust Update — Use this workflow when you are working on managing up and need to compress the situation into a decision-ready brief. Its distinct job inside the Upward Signal Pack is to produce the operator memo; use the neighboring skills for Upward Disagreement Brief, Escalation Judgment Check, Priority Reading Map.
- Upward Disagreement Brief — Use this workflow when you are working on managing up and need to compress the situation into a decision-ready brief. Its distinct job inside the Upward Signal Pack is to produce the operator memo; use the neighboring skills for Manager Trust Update, Escalation Judgment Check, Priority Reading Map.
- Escalation Judgment Check — Use this workflow when you are working on managing up and need to diagnose the current state and name the operating risk. Its distinct job inside the Upward Signal Pack is to produce the escalation judgment check; use the neighboring skills for Manager Trust Update, Upward Disagreement Brief, Priority Reading Map.
- Priority Reading Map — Use this workflow when you are working on managing up and need to make the system visible by mapping owners, flows, and evidence. Its distinct job inside the Upward Signal Pack is to produce the owner-and-flow map; use the neighboring skills for Manager Trust Update, Upward Disagreement Brief, Escalation Judgment Check.
How to load in Codex / Claude Code / OpenClaw / Hermes
- Start from
START_HERE.md,manifest.json, or the main catalog. - Select this pack, then select one skill for the immediate job.
- Load only the pack
README.md, the selected skill file, and the matching example if a concrete prompt pattern helps. - Preserve the selected skill's output schema, assumptions, failure modes, and human review gates.
- Do not treat a skill as permission for autonomous external action; keep external, personnel, financial, legal, security, and high-impact decisions behind explicit human review.