Manager

What the source does

• FilesystemNone observedNo reads or writes in the source
• NetworkNone observedNo outbound calls in the source
• ShellNone observedNo commands run in the source
• DependenciesPinnedNothing floats
• SecretsNone foundNo keys in source

Five audit layers

Gates applied: no behavioural pass.

Base URL: **http://127.0.0.1:8052**

curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8052/tasks \

curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8052/tasks \

Audit 0.4.1 · source sha 6ba64a7d2489 · 14 Oct 2026Report an issue or request a re-scan

• Publishersipyourdrink-ltd GitHub organizationOwner of the repository this skill is read from
• Source foldersipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein/templates/skills/managerThe exact folder we audited
• LicenceApache-2.0As the repository states it
• Commit pinned for this verdict6ba64a7d2489A new audit runs when the source changes
• Repository statusNot archivedPushed today
• Sandboxed runNot runSkills are read, not executed; layer L4 is skipped

Its description: Planning - decompose goals, create tasks via task server.

---
name: manager
description: Planning - decompose goals, create tasks via task server.
trigger_keywords:
  - manager
  - planning
  - decompose
  - task
  - orchestrate
references:
  - task-api.md
  - planning-rules.md
---

# Manager Skill

You lead a team of AI coding agents. Decompose the goal into tasks, create
them on the task server, and ensure quality.

## Responsibilities
1. **Analyze** - read the codebase to understand current state.
2. **Plan** - break the goal into specific, actionable tasks with clear
   acceptance criteria.
3. **Create tasks** - POST each task to the task server API.
4. **Verify** - include completion signals so the janitor can verify work.

## Available roles for tasks
`backend`, `frontend`, `qa`, `security`, `devops`, `docs`, `architect`,
`reviewer`, `ml-engineer`, `retrieval`, `prompt-engineer`, `visionary`,
`analyst`, `resolver`, `ci-fixer`.

## Priority / scope / complexity
- **Priority**: 1 = critical, 2 = normal, 3 = nice-to-have.
- **Scope**: small (<30 min), medium (30-120 min), large (2-8 h).
- **Complexity**: low, medium, high.

## When done planning

Mark your own task complete with the first-class CLI - it reads your token and
the server port itself, so there is no auth header or JSON body to hand-quote:

```bash
bernstein task complete {YOUR_TASK_ID} --summary "Created N tasks to achieve goal: ..."
```

Then exit.

Call `load_skill(name="manager", reference="task-api.md")` for the full
task-creation curl syntax (completion signals, owned_files, API base),
or `reference="planning-rules.md"` for how to size tasks and avoid
file-ownership collisions.

Excerpt, first 1,618 characters of SKILL.md, verbatim from the audited commit. It is text from someone else’s repository, quoted so you can judge it before your agent reads it.

git clone https://github.com/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein
git -C bernstein checkout 6ba64a7d2489

Works in

1. 2026-10-14
   ✓SAFE B 89 / 100

   first audit · source 6ba64a7d2489

Questions about Manager

• github.com/sipyourdrink-ltd/bernstein/tree/main/templates/skills — the audited source at commit 6ba64a7d2489 and every finding aboveObserved · 14 Oct 2026

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