What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps engineering managers prevent engineer attrition by diagnosing why an engineer is at risk and selecting the right intervention before disengagement hardens into resignation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Five-state retention diagnostic: identifies whether the engineer feels unappreciated, lonely, bored, stuck, or apathetic based on signals in recent behavior and 1:1 context.
- Action plan and conversation tooling: produces a week-to-month plan plus a ready-to-use retention conversation script tailored to the likely state.
- Compensation, equity, and recognition playbooks: guides how to handle raise and equity/option conversations, and provides zero-budget recognition ideas when budget is constrained.
- Special-case handling: includes a framework for when an engineer already has another offer and for recognizing warning signs of disengagement.
Quick Start
Use the retaining-developers skill when a manager says their engineer is disengaged, unhappy, or may be leaving, and then ask it to produce a risk read, likely state, targeted 1:1 questions, an action plan, and a conversation script.
