Engineering Manager Skills

GitHub Repo: engineering-manager-skills

A collection of 28 reusable Copilot CLI skills for engineering managers who use Obsidian as their PKM and GitHub for team management. Talk to Copilot like you’d talk to a chief of staff.

What it does

You type things like:

> prep my day
> prep 1:1 with Sam
> write my weekly snippet
> how's the team doing?
> review network for last month
> generate review cards for Q3

Behind each prompt is a skill that knows where to look, what to fetch, and how to format the output. Skills pull from GitHub (PRs, reviews, issues, sprints), your Obsidian vault (daily notes, people files, open tasks), and a local team.json config.

No new apps. No dashboards. No manual data entry. Just conversation.

What’s included

28 skills across 6 categories:

• Obsidian — task rollover, daily note management, vault operations
• GitHub — team activity sync, PR enrichment, sprint tracking, epic management
• Management — 1:1 prep (direct reports + peers), weekly snippets, interview prep, project status
• Technical — product briefs, codebase deep dives, initiative breakdowns
• Metrics — review network analysis, contribution velocity, 9-box grids, team health dashboards
• Orchestration — end-to-end workflows that chain skills together (like prep-my-day)

Quick start

gh skill install philpalmieri/engineering-manager-skills

Then configure your team:

> setup my team config
> sync my team data
> prep my day

How it’s built

Skills are layered and composable. Data flows from gh CLI through fetch/enrich skills into local JSON, then metrics and management skills consume that data to produce reports, prep docs, and vault updates. All org-specific config lives in a single team.json file (gitignored), so the skills themselves contain zero personal data and are safe to share.

Prerequisites

• GitHub Copilot CLI
• GitHub CLI (gh) authenticated with org access
• An Obsidian vault with daily notes and people files