career-planning

career-planning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (416 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for planning a software career over time. It covers skills assessment, career levels, goals, mentors, and changing career direction.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess technical and people skills, set quarterly goals, build a mentor network, plan progression, or prepare for a career pivot.
Why use it?
It gives structure to decisions about what to learn, which roles to target, and how to measure progress.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess technical and people skills, set quarterly goals, build a mentor network, plan progression, or prepare for a career pivot.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills/career-planning
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 cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills --skill career-planning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 416 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00023 $0.00416
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4563e7c589d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

career-planning 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 12d 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.

categories/career/career-planning/SKILL.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

Career Planning

Design and execute a long-term career strategy.

Frameworks

IKIGAI — Find Your Direction

     What you love
         |
  What you're ——— What the world
  good at       needs
         |
     What you can be paid for

Career Levels Progression

Level Focus Timeline
L3 (Junior) Execution, learning 0-2 years
L4 (Mid) Independent delivery 2-4 years
L5 (Senior) Technical leadership, mentoring 4-7 years
L6 (Staff) Cross-team impact, strategy 7-10 years
L7 (Principal) Org-wide influence, industry 10+ years

Skills Assessment

Every 6 Months

  1. List your top 5 technical skills (rate 1-10)
  2. List top 5 soft skills (rate 1-10)
  3. Identify 2 skills to grow next quarter
  4. Check job descriptions for target role — what's missing?
  5. Create a learning plan with specific milestones

Personal Board of Directors

Curate 3-5 mentors for different domains:

  • Technical mentor (senior IC or architect)
  • Career mentor (manager or director)
  • Industry mentor (different company, same field)
  • Personal mentor (life/career balance)

Career Pivot Plan

  1. Identify transferable skills
  2. Build portfolio projects in new domain
  3. Network with people in target field
  4. Get certification or targeted education
  5. Start with adjacent role, then pivot fully
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. 12d ago First seen · 59 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 4563e7c589d0

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career-planning is a skill published in the GitHub repository cosmicstack-labs/mercury-agent-skills (471 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 416 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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