Agent skill

Fleet Manager

by harperreed in harperreed/dotfiles

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to check on agents, manage their fleet, babysit panes, see what needs attention, get a status report, or when they say "check on my agents", "what needs…

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Install Fleet Manager

skills CLI
$ npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill fleet-manager -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install harperreed/dotfiles fleet-manager --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harperreed/dotfiles.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills-archive/fleet-manager .claude/skills/fleet-manager && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
fleet-manager
GitHub stars
334
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
402 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
32
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to check on agents, manage their fleet, babysit panes, see what needs attention, get a status report, or when they say "check on my agents", "what needs…

  • Works in 4 steps: Gather → Classify → Present Digest → …
  • The user asks to check on agents
  • SKILL.md covers The Loop, Step 1: Gather, Step 2: Classify and Step 3: Present Digest, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Fleet Manager is an agent skill from harperreed/dotfiles. Use when the user asks to check on agents, manage their fleet, babysit panes, see what needs attention, get a status report, or when they say "check on my agents", "what needs action", "fleet status", "babysit", "brief me". Requires the control MCP server to be registered and the daemon running.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Agent Workflows. It works with Model Context Protocol. The repository describes itself as: Dotfiles. Managed by YADM.

When your agent uses it

  • The user asks to check on agents
  • Manage their fleet
  • See what needs attention
  • Get a status report

Example prompts

  • “check on my agents”
  • “what needs action”
  • “fleet status”
  • “/fleet-manager”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Gather
  2. Classify
  3. Present Digest
  4. Act

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit b78c10e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are dot).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Fleet Manager loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 402 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 402 words (~1,040 tokens).

“Manage a fleet of AI coding agents running in tmux panes using the control MCP tools.”

— opening of SKILL.md by harperreed
name
fleet-manager

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills-archive/fleet-manager of harperreed/dotfiles.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit b78c10e

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Fastmcp Client CLIPrefectHQ/fastmcp28k1 repos~823Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0
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Categories

Questions about Fleet Manager

What does Fleet Manager do?

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to check on agents, manage their fleet, babysit panes, see what needs attention, get a status report, or when they say "check on my agents", "what needs…. Fleet Manager is an agent skill from harperreed/dotfiles. Use when the user asks to check on agents, manage their fleet, babysit panes, see what needs attention, get a status report, or when they say "check on my agents", "what needs action", "fleet status", "babysit", "brief me".

When should I use Fleet Manager?

Fleet Manager fits situations like: the user asks to check on agents; manage their fleet; see what needs attention; get a status report.

How do I install Fleet Manager in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill fleet-manager -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills-archive/fleet-manager in harperreed/dotfiles) into .claude/skills/fleet-manager in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Fleet Manager in Codex?

Run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill fleet-manager -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills-archive/fleet-manager in harperreed/dotfiles) into .agents/skills/fleet-manager in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Fleet Manager in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add harperreed/dotfiles --skill fleet-manager -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/fleet-manager, .gemini/skills/fleet-manager, .github/skills/fleet-manager and .opencode/skills/fleet-manager in your project.

What does Fleet Manager need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Fleet Manager is instructions for the agent only.

Does Fleet Manager access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Fleet Manager safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Fleet Manager use?

No licence was found for Fleet Manager or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Fleet Manager use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Fleet Manager?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Fleet Manager: MCP Server Builder (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), MCP Server Builder (shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code, 78k stars), MCP Integration for Plugins (anthropics/claude-plugins-official, 38k stars) and Fastmcp Client CLI (PrefectHQ/fastmcp, 28k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Fleet Manager?

harperreed (a GitHub user) maintains it in harperreed/dotfiles, which has 334 GitHub stars. The repository holds 32 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 3, 2026.

Source: harperreed/dotfiles on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.