People Management

Most operators treat AI agents like dispensers: post a brief, wait for output, wonder why it came back wrong. This skill fixes that.

People Management is the full operating standard for leading direct reports — AI coding agents, sub-agents, or human collaborators. Built from Extreme Ownership principles and refined through real multi-agent operations.

What it covers:

• The core principle: did I give them what they needed to succeed?
• How to document your report's known properties so you're never surprised
• The full management loop: brief → two-way loop → trigger → monitor → delivery check → acknowledge
• How to hold accountability correctly — when it's your failure vs. theirs, and how to call it both ways honestly
• The dispatcher vs. manager distinction (most operators are dispatchers and don't know it)
• How to maintain trust up and down the chain
• Five anti-patterns that kill output quality before the work starts

Pairs with the Agent Briefing skill for the brief-writing component.

If you have a coding agent, a CTO agent, or any AI direct report and you're not getting the output you want — this is why, and this is how you fix it.