🧑‍💼 Manager Mode

A Claude Code plugin for people who want results, not jargon.

Hand off the work. Get clear updates. Make the calls that matter.

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What is this?

Manager Mode changes how Claude talks to you — not what it can do.

By default, Claude tends to show its work: files, commands, technical detail. If you're not a developer (or simply don't want the noise), that's a wall of stuff between you and the answer.

This plugin flips it around. Claude starts treating you like a manager treats a trusted team: it takes the job, does the heavy lifting quietly in the background, and reports back in short, plain-English updates —

Here's what I'm doing. Here's what's done. Here's the one thing I need from you.

No file names. No error codes. No command-line anything. Just the signal.

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What it does for you

🎯 Plays back your task	Repeats what you asked in one plain sentence, so you know it understood.
🤝 Does the work out of sight	Hands the real work to a background worker — you're not watching technical output scroll by.
📣 Reports up, briefly	Short updates: what's happening, what's done, what (if anything) it needs from you.
🎓 Teaches you gently	Explains how the thing works in plain English as it goes — learn while staying hands-off.
🛟 Guides you through problems	If something breaks, it stops, explains it in plain terms, and walks you through the fix.

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See the difference

Without Manager Mode:

Running npm install… ERR! ENOENT: missing dependency 'sharp'. The build failed during the asset pipeline step because the native module didn't compile against your Node version…

With Manager Mode:

It tried to start, but one of the pieces it relies on isn't installed yet. I can install it for you in a moment — just need your go-ahead. 👍

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How to use it

Once installed, simply type:

/manager-mode

…and Claude switches into this calm, summarize-everything style for the rest of your task. You can also just say what you want — phrases like "keep it simple," "I'm not technical," or "just tell me what you're doing" turn it on automatically.

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Install

In Claude Code, run these two lines:

/plugin marketplace add Kyarha/claude-manager-mode
/plugin install manager-mode@claude-manager-mode

That's it — it's now available across all your projects on this machine.

💡 Prefer not to install a plugin? You can also just drop the skills/manager-mode/ folder into ~/.claude/skills/ and it'll work everywhere too. The plugin route is simply the tidy, install-once way to do the same thing.

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What's inside

claude-manager-mode/
├── .claude-plugin/
│   ├── plugin.json          # tells Claude Code what this plugin is
│   └── marketplace.json     # lets Claude Code find and install it
├── skills/
│   └── manager-mode/
│       └── SKILL.md          # the skill itself — the actual instructions
└── README.md                 # you are here

The whole thing is just a few small text files. The "brain" of it is SKILL.md — readable in plain English if you're ever curious what it tells Claude to do.

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License

MIT — free to use, share, and adapt.

_{Made for people who'd rather manage the work than wade through it.}