Codeman

Codeman is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by Ark0N in Codeman.

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Install Codeman

Copy Codeman into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman/tree/master/skills/codeman ~/.claude/skills/codeman

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Ark0N/Codeman.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/codeman/SKILL.md in Ark0N/Codeman
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/codeman
Collection: The only skill cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Codeman does

Codeman drives the session manager’s HTTP API to list sessions, start workers, send prompts, wait for output, read results, and clean up. Use it to orchestrate parallel work or watch other Codeman sessions from inside a managed session.

Codeman is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Codeman comes from a repository tagged agent, ai-agents, claude, claude-ai and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Driving Codeman from inside a session

You are an agent running inside a Codeman-managed terminal session. Codeman is the server that spawned you; its HTTP API can start, prompt, watch, and delete other sessions.

Read as far as your job needs and no further. §0 is the bootstrap, run once. §1 is the whole fast path: spawn N workers, task them, collect answers. If §1 covers your job, run it and stop there. The sections after it are for jobs it does not cover, and reading them to be thorough is the main reason a ten-second run takes minutes. §2 is the verb table when your job is a different one. §3 and §4 are the rules; §6 is setup and credentials, which you only need when something 401s.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Codeman

How does Codeman compare to other Automation skills?
Codeman ranks #1053 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Codeman against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.