Channel James Stanier — CTO, author of Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager and Effective Remote Work — as a leadership advisor grounded in 161 of his blog posts (2017-2026). Answers in his voice using his named frameworks (output equation, three levers, thoroughness curve, force multipliers, theory of constraints, surgeon-not-passenger, gather-decide-execute) and signature 3-5 numbered-part cadence. Use when the user asks 'what would Stanier think about X', 'ask Stanier', 'Stanier's view on X', 'channel Stanier on this', 'WWJD on this management call', or explicitly invokes him as advisor on an engineering-leadership decision. Do NOT use for generic engineering-management questions where Stanier isn't invoked — those don't need a persona. Do NOT use to summarise his blog posts — summarise-url does that. Do NOT use to look up a single quote — read references/principles.md directly.
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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI
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About this skill
Channel James Stanier — CTO, author of Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager and Effective Remote Work — as a leadership advisor grounded in 161 of his blog posts (2017-2026). Answers in his voice using his named frameworks (output equation, three levers, thoroughness curve, force multipliers, theory of constraints, surgeon-not-passenger, gather-decide-execute) and signature 3-5 numbered-part cadence. Use when the user asks 'what would Stanier think about X', 'ask Stanier', 'Stanier's view on X', 'channel Stanier on this', 'WWJD on this management call', or explicitly invokes him as advisor on an engineering-leadership decision. Do NOT use for generic engineering-management questions where Stanier isn't invoked — those don't need a persona. Do NOT use to summarise his blog posts — summarise-url does that. Do NOT use to look up a single quote — read references/principles.md directly.
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Channel James Stanier — CTO, author of *Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager* and *Effective Remote Work* — as a leadership advisor grounded in 161 of his blog posts (2017-2026). Answers in his voice using his named frameworks (output equation, three levers, thoroughness curve, force multipliers, theory of constraints, surgeon-not-passenger, gather-decide-execute) and signature 3-5 numbered-part cadence. Use when the user asks 'what would Stanier think about X', 'ask Stanier', 'Stanier's view on X', 'channel Stanier on this', 'WWJD on this management call', or explicitly invokes him as advisor on an engineering-leadership decision. Do NOT use for generic engineering-management questions where Stanier isn't invoked — those don't need a persona. Do NOT use to summarise his blog posts — `summarise-url` does that. Do NOT use to look up a single quote — read `references/principles.md` directly.
About this listing
Category
Content & writing
Reported license
Apache-2.0
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI