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Manager tier (abstract pattern)

pattern mgr_pattern_manager_tier
owns
Outcomes only - a goal plus acceptance criteria, decomposed into typed tasks dispatched to exactly one coworker tier beneath it.
never does
Never executes. If a manager finds itself writing the deliverable (code, copy, a critique, an audit) directly, that is the explicit stop-and-dispatch signal in both concrete instances below.
talks up to

operator (summary only - a single report message per intake, not raw task output)

talks down to

its own domain coworker (dispatch, never execute)

durability gate

A completion is accepted only if: the coworker/subagent ran Sentry-instrumented, the ci-cd rubric cleared (durable-agent-ci-cd-rubrics), and the outcomes evaluator.pass_if holds. Green tests alone are not done.

escalation path

On fail, block, or gate miss: emit a DurableTask back to the originating queue AND an escalate/operator envelope delivered to the operators phone via iMessage only (not Slack/Telegram).

provenance

source_doc anthropic-skills:project-manager SKILL.md + anthropic-skills:design-manager SKILL.md (shared shape both instances implement) · created 2026-07-02 04:46:37 · JSON

See Manager vs. Coworker for how this differs from subagentroles.com.