First-time engineering manager readiness & failure modes

Guidance for the IC→manager transition: the EM responsibility triangle (leadership/processes/delivery — pick two), the six most common first-time-manager failur

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mcpprobedeng-leadership-toolkit

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Provider Upstream docs

$Set up https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/SKILL.md, then use Cracked to run mcp-coach-marian-eng-leadership-toolkit /get_first_time_manager_guidance for me.

Input

Field	Type	Description
context*	string	Explain why you are calling this tool and how it fits into the user's overall goal. This p

Call it

curl

curl https://cracked-ai-pearl.vercel.app/v1/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"provider":"mcp-coach-marian-eng-leadership-toolkit","endpoint":"/get_first_time_manager_guidance","input":{"context":"..."}}'

cli

npx cracked-ai run -p mcp-coach-marian-eng-leadership-toolkit -e /get_first_time_manager_guidance -i '{"context":"..."}'

mcp

run_tool({ provider: "mcp-coach-marian-eng-leadership-toolkit", endpoint: "/get_first_time_manager_guidance", input: {"context":"..."} })

Try it

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