# chief-of-staff

> Claude/Codex skill by [@mattpocock](https://omgskills.com/library/mattpocock/index.md) · 324k stars · 132k installs · Updated 2026-11-13

Pursue a long-running goal in a single session by co-ordinating subagents.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/in-progress/chief-of-staff ~/.claude/skills/chief-of-staff
```

## From README

Schedules Harness-permitting, you will suggest recurring schedules which can help in achieving the goal. Subagents All work should be done in subagents. Protect your context window. Use background agents so you can stay in active dialogue with the user. Start every subagent with a fresh context window. Communication to and from subagents should be sparse. Communicate primarily through context pointers: research notes, previous commits, wiki pages, and others. Don't duplicate information already available via pointers. Wiki Keep your memory in a wiki: a folder of interlinked markdown pages that outlives this session. Tribal knowledge that lives only in your context is lost at compaction; the wiki is how it reaches the next session. Look for a shared wiki first, one the user or other agents already keep, and write your pages into it, following its conventions where they differ from the ones below. Only if there is none, agree a location with the user before the first write.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/mattpocock/skills/chief-of-staff/
- GitHub: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
- Author: [@mattpocock](https://omgskills.com/library/mattpocock/index.md)

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