What problem does it solve? Engineering work often spans multiple sessions, hosts, and context resets, making it hard to know where an effort stands or to continue it elsewhere. This Skill carries one effort from raw intent through the existing owner workflows, persisting it in an operator-scoped portfolio so progress survives across sessions and machines. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Effort Intake and Routing: Start an effort from raw intent, classify it via the /ask-red router, and record the route in the portfolio. - Status Briefs: Render an on-demand brief for any effort, showing its lifecycle state (inbox, active, paused, completed, abandoned). - Checkpoint Handover: Export the whole portfolio as a secret-free TOONL document and import it on another host, which becomes the single active writer. - Trust Boundary Enforcement: Treat tracker issues, comments, and PR bodies as untrusted evidence; only the operator session or an owning HITL workflow can issue directives. - Use Case: You start a spec effort on your laptop with /manager add OAuth support, then run checkpoint export, move to a desktop machine, checkpoint import, and continue exactly where you left off. ## Quick Start Invoke /manager with a short description of the work you want to start, for example by asking the assistant to run /manager with the intent to triage the open bug backlog.
