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Engineering Leadership Plugin — Development skill for Claude Code

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Free Claude plugin for engineering leaders: team-lead readiness assessment, 2026 European salary models, 1:1 playbooks and benchmarks from 3,611 mentoring sessions.

How to install Engineering Leadership Plugin

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open marian-kamenistak/engineering-leadership-plugin and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Engineering Leadership Plugin does

Free Claude plugin for engineering leaders: team-lead readiness assessment, 2026 European salary models, 1:1 playbooks and benchmarks from 3,611 mentoring sessions. Two skills + two open MCP servers, no account needed.

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README

Engineering Leadership

A free plugin for Claude. It handles the two questions engineers ask before they move into leadership, and keep asking for years afterwards: should I take the lead role, and what am I worth.

Install it and Claude can run a calibrated 17-question readiness assessment, score 15 skills against 2026 European salary data, pull org-ratio benchmarks and 1:1 playbooks, estimate what a coach should cost, and write the business case if your company is the one paying.

Built from 3,611 mentoring sessions with engineering leaders in 17+ countries since 2019.

Install

In Claude (Cowork or Code), add this repository as a marketplace, then install the plugin:

claude plugin marketplace add marian-kamenistak/engineering-leadership-plugin
claude plugin install engineering-leadership@marian-coach

In Cowork: **Customize → Plugins → Add marketplace**, paste `https://github.com/marian-kamenistak/engineering-leadership-plugin`, then install.

Nothing to configure. Both bundled servers are open — no account, no API key, no OAuth.

Then ask Claude something like:

"Should I become a team lead?"
"Score me as an EM and tell me what's blocking director."
"What should a senior backend engineer earn in Berlin?"
"My 1:1s are status updates. Fix them."
"Write the case for my company to pay for a mentor."

What's inside

**Two skills** — the procedural part. These teach Claude how to run the assessment, which questions to ask, and how to read the answers.

Skill	Answers
`team-lead-readiness`	Should this engineer become a team lead? Six dimensions, a straight verdict, the two weakest areas with one concrete move each
`engineering-salary-calculator`	What is a developer or engineering manager worth? 15 skills across 5 pillars, weighted by level, mapped to 2026 Western-Europe gross salary