Agent skill

New Manager First 90 Days

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Plan your first 90 days as a new manager — build trust, learn before changing, and avoid the classic first-time-manager mistakes.

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Install New Manager First 90 Days

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill new-manager-first-90-days -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills new-manager-first-90-days --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/new-manager-first-90-days .claude/skills/new-manager-first-90-days && 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
new-manager-first-90-days
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
616 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Plan your first 90 days as a new manager — build trust, learn before changing, and avoid the classic first-time-manager mistakes.

  • Works in 6 steps: Listen before you change. Spend the… → Invest in 1:1s. Use first 1:1s to learn… → Make the mindset shift. Your job is now… → …
  • Asked to help me as a new manager
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: Learn, Then Lead and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

New Manager First 90 Days is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Plan your first 90 days as a new manager — build trust, learn before changing, and avoid the classic first-time-manager mistakes. Use when asked to help me as a new manager, I just became a manager, first-time manager advice, or my first 90 days managing a team. Produces a phased 90-day plan (listen and learn, then set direction, then adjust), how to run your first 1:1s, the mindset shift from doer to enabler, common traps to avoid (doing it all yourself, changing too fast, avoiding hard conversations), and early…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to help me as a new manager
  • I just became a manager
  • First-time manager advice
  • My first 90 days managing a team

Example prompts

  • “/new-manager-first-90-days”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Listen before you change. Spend the early weeks understanding the team, the work, and the context before making changes — early sweeping…
  2. Invest in 1:1s. Use first 1:1s to learn each person's goals, strengths, working style, and needs — relationships are the foundation of…
  3. Make the mindset shift. Your job is now to enable the team, not to be the top individual contributor — resist doing the work yourself…
  4. Set direction once you understand. After learning, clarify priorities, expectations, and how the team will work — then adjust based on…
  5. Don't dodge the hard stuff. Address underperformance and tensions kindly but directly; avoiding difficult conversations early is a trap…
  6. Bank early, appropriate wins. Small improvements and removing blockers build credibility without overstepping your still-forming…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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.

    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

New Manager First 90 Days loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 143 tokens; SKILL.md has 616 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~143
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 616 words, ~1,256 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/new-manager-first-90-days/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
new-manager-first-90-days
description
Plan your first 90 days as a new manager — build trust, learn before changing, and avoid the classic first-time-manager mistakes. Use when asked to help me as a new manager, I just became a manager, first-time manager advice, or my first 90 days managing a team. Produces a phased 90-day plan (listen and learn, then set direction, then adjust), how to run your first 1:1s, the mindset shift from doer to enabler, common traps to avoid (doing it all yourself, changing too fast, avoiding hard conversations), and early wins that build credibility.
deprecated
2026-08-21
supersededBy
manager-first-90-days

New Manager: First 90 Days

The jump to managing is a role change, not a promotion for doing more of the same — and most first-time managers stumble by either changing everything on day one or staying an individual contributor with a title. This gives a phased first-90-days plan: earn trust and learn first, then set direction, then adjust — plus how to handle the 1:1s, delegation, and hard conversations that define the job.

What This Skill Produces

  • A phased 90-day plan — listen & learn (first weeks) → set direction (mid) → adjust & build (later), instead of changing everything at once
  • First 1:1s — how to run them to build trust and understand each person (their goals, working style, and what they need from you)
  • The mindset shift — moving from doer to enabler: your output is now the team's output
  • Trap avoidance — the classic first-time mistakes (doing the work yourself, changing too fast, avoiding difficult conversations, playing favorites)
  • Early wins — credibility-building moves that help the team without overstepping
  • A read on the situation — inheriting a team vs. building one, peers-now-reports, or a struggling team

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The situation — inherited team, new team, promoted over former peers, or a turnaround
  • The team — size, and what you know about how it's doing
  • Your background — first-time manager or experienced, and your relationship to the team
  • The context — org expectations, any pressing issues
  • Your worry — what you're most unsure about

Framework: Learn, Then Lead

  1. Listen before you change. Spend the early weeks understanding the team, the work, and the context before making changes — early sweeping changes without understanding destroy trust.
  2. Invest in 1:1s. Use first 1:1s to learn each person's goals, strengths, working style, and needs — relationships are the foundation of everything else.
  3. Make the mindset shift. Your job is now to enable the team, not to be the top individual contributor — resist doing the work yourself; delegate and develop.
  4. Set direction once you understand. After learning, clarify priorities, expectations, and how the team will work — then adjust based on what you see.
  5. Don't dodge the hard stuff. Address underperformance and tensions kindly but directly; avoiding difficult conversations early is a trap that compounds.
  6. Bank early, appropriate wins. Small improvements and removing blockers build credibility without overstepping your still-forming understanding.
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Output Format

First 90 days: [situation] · team [size] · [first-time?]

Situation read: [inherited/new/former-peers/turnaround → what it means]. Phase 1 (learn, ~weeks 1–4): listen · first 1:1s · understand work/context · no big changes yet. First 1:1s — ask: [goals · working style · what they need from you · what's working/not]. Phase 2 (direction, ~weeks 5–8): clarify priorities/expectations · how the team works. Phase 3 (adjust & build, ~weeks 9–12): refine · develop people · early wins. Mindset shift: doer → enabler (your output = the team's). Avoid: doing it all yourself · changing too fast · dodging hard conversations · favoritism. Early wins: [remove a blocker · a small improvement].

Quality Checks

  • Plan is phased (learn → direct → adjust), not change-everything-now
  • Includes how to run trust-building first 1:1s
  • Names the doer→enabler mindset shift and delegation
  • Warns against the classic first-time-manager traps
  • Includes appropriate early wins
  • Tailored to the situation (inherited/peers/turnaround)

Anti-Patterns

  • Changing everything on day one before understanding.
  • Staying an IC with a manager title (won't delegate).
  • Skipping real 1:1s and relationship-building.
  • Avoiding underperformance/tension early.
  • Favoritism or trying to be everyone's friend over being fair.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "I just became a manager for the first time — help me plan my first 90 days."
  • "How do I run my first 1:1s with my new team?"
  • "I got promoted over my former peers — how do I handle it?"
  • "I'm a new manager and keep doing all the work myself. Help."
  • "What are the biggest mistakes new managers make and how do I avoid them?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/new-manager-first-90-days of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about New Manager First 90 Days

What does New Manager First 90 Days do?

Plan your first 90 days as a new manager — build trust, learn before changing, and avoid the classic first-time-manager mistakes. New Manager First 90 Days is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Plan your first 90 days as a new manager — build trust, learn before changing, and avoid the classic first-time-manager mistakes.

When should I use New Manager First 90 Days?

New Manager First 90 Days fits situations like: asked to help me as a new manager; I just became a manager; first-time manager advice; my first 90 days managing a team.

How do I install New Manager First 90 Days in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill new-manager-first-90-days -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/new-manager-first-90-days in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/new-manager-first-90-days in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install New Manager First 90 Days in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill new-manager-first-90-days -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/new-manager-first-90-days in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/new-manager-first-90-days in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use New Manager First 90 Days 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill new-manager-first-90-days -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/new-manager-first-90-days, .gemini/skills/new-manager-first-90-days, .github/skills/new-manager-first-90-days and .opencode/skills/new-manager-first-90-days in your project.

What does New Manager First 90 Days need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: New Manager First 90 Days is instructions for the agent only.

Does New Manager First 90 Days 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 New Manager First 90 Days 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 New Manager First 90 Days use?

New Manager First 90 Days is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does New Manager First 90 Days use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains New Manager First 90 Days?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

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