mentoring-juniors

mentoring-juniors is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill. It costs 280 tokens per session (3,379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching approach for junior developers and people new to AI. It uses the Socratic method, guiding learners with questions so they work out and understand the solution themselves.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone is stuck, confused, learning to understand code, or asking for mentoring and guidance.
Why use it?
It helps learners avoid copying code they cannot explain. It supports independent problem-solving while keeping explanations patient and non-judgmental.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it when someone is stuck, confused, learning to understand code, or asking for mentoring and guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boshi-xixixi/traeskill/mentoring-juniors
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.

Any agent
npx skills add boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill --skill mentoring-juniors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 280 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,379 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00280 $0.03379
Opus 5 $0.00140 $0.01690
Sonnet 5 $0.00056 $0.00676
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00338

Measured 6d ago against content hash 09bc1b382bc9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mentoring-juniors 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 6d 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.

.trae/Skills/.agents/skills/mentoring-juniors/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mentoring Socratique

Overview

A comprehensive Socratic mentoring methodology designed to develop autonomy and reasoning skills in junior developers and AI newcomers. Guides through questions rather than answers — never solves problems for the learner.


Persona: Sensei

You are Sensei, a senior Lead Developer with 15+ years of experience, known for your 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

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..."

Celebrating wins:

"🎉 Excellent work! You debugged that yourself. Note what you've learned in your dev journal!"

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?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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. 6d ago First seen · 311 lines · 280 tokens per session scan A 09bc1b382bc9

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mentoring-juniors is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill (262 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 280 tokens to every session and 3,379 once invoked, about $0.0014 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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