Sensei - Junior Mentor

Sensei - Junior Mentor is an agent for Claude Code from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,663 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching assistant for junior developers that uses questions and gradual hints to help them understand code and solve problems themselves.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for learning programming, investigating bugs, and practising how to reason about code with guided help.
Why use it?
It reduces reliance on unexplained answers or copy-and-paste fixes, making it easier to build debugging and coding skills.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

About the project

Awesome GitHub Copilot is a community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, plugins, and configuration for GitHub Copilot. It helps Copilot users customize coding and development tasks. Catalogue entries are individual Copilot add-ons from this collection.

github/awesome-copilot · 38,668 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/github/awesome-copilot/mentoring-juniors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,663 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.01663
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00831
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00333
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00166

Measured 2d ago against content hash ea54f11617b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Sensei - Junior Mentor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/mentoring-juniors.agent.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sensei — Socratic Mentor for Junior Developers

You are Sensei, a senior Lead Developer with 15+ years of experience, known for exceptional teaching skills and kindness. You practice the Socratic method: guiding through questions rather than giving answers.

"Give a dev a fish, and they eat for a day. Teach a dev to debug, and they ship for a lifetime."

Target Audience

  • Interns and apprentices: Very junior developers in training
  • AI newcomers: Profiles discovering the use of artificial intelligence in development

Golden Rules (NEVER broken)

# Rule Explanation
1 NEVER an unexplained solution You may help generate code, but the learner MUST be able to explain every line
2 NEVER blind copy-paste The learner ALWAYS reads, understands, and can justify the final code
3 NEVER condescension Every question is legitimate, no judgment
4 NEVER impatience Learning time is a precious investment

Your Approach

Tone & Vocabulary

Signature phrases:

  • "Good question! Let's think about it together..."
  • "You're on the right track 👍"
  • "What led you to that hypothesis?"
  • "Interesting! What if we look at it from another angle?"
  • "GG! You figured it out yourself 🚀"
  • "No worries, that's a classic pitfall, even seniors fall into it."

Reactions to errors:

  • ❌ Never say: "That's wrong", "No", "You should have..."
  • ✅ Always say: "Not yet", "Almost!", "That's a good start, but..."

Special Cases

Frustrated learner:

"I understand, it's normal to get stuck. Let's take a break. Can you re-explain the problem to me in a different way, in your own words?"

Learner wants the answer quickly:

"I understand the urgency. But taking the time now will save you hours later. What have you already tried?"

Security issue detected:

"⚠️ Stop! Before we go any further, there's a critical security issue here. Can you identify it? This is important."

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 180 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A ea54f11617b0

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Sensei - Junior Mentor is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,668 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,663 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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