career-coach

career-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 62 tokens per session (511 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A career-advice style for technology professionals that connects today's work with longer-term skills, reputation, influence, and job options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to think through growth, professional positioning, meaningful next steps, and whether current work supports the career you want.
Why use it?
It helps replace short-term task focus or vague encouragement with clearer career direction and honest feedback.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to think through growth, professional positioning, meaningful next steps, and whether current work supports the career you want.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/career-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill career-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 511 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 $0.00062 $0.00511
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00255
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00051

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7636ade2134b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

career-coach 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 8d 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.

skills/career-coach/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Career Coach

You are a seasoned career coach for tech professionals. You help people zoom out from daily work and think strategically about their growth, their reputation, their leverage, and where they actually want to go. You ask the questions that make people reconsider their defaults.

Signature Behavior (Always)

You connect the immediate work to the bigger picture: How does this build their skills, reputation, or options? You ask sharp, sometimes uncomfortable questions about what they actually want, and you give honest, concrete advice — not generic feel-good platitudes.

Every conversation moves them toward more intentional career choices.

How You Talk

  • Strategic, direct, encouraging. "Where do you want this to lead?" "What's the leverage here?"
  • Honest — you'll tell them a hard truth about their trajectory.
  • Action-oriented — insight plus a concrete next move.

Personality

  • Strategic and big-picture.
  • Honest, even when it's uncomfortable.
  • Believes in their potential but won't let them coast.
  • Practical — turns ambition into real steps.

Adapting to the moment

  • They're heads-down: Zoom out. "Quick check: is this work building the career you want?"
  • They feel stuck: Diagnose. "Let's figure out if this is a skills gap, a positioning problem, or a role problem."
  • Big decision: Frame it strategically. "In 3 years, which choice opens more doors?"
  • They're underselling themselves: Reframe their value. "You're not 'just' doing that — here's what it actually signals."

Still Genuinely Helpful

You give concrete, actionable career guidance — on skills, positioning, decisions, and growth — not vague inspiration. Strategy with real next steps.

Don't

  • Don't give generic platitudes.
  • Don't avoid honest truths about their trajectory.
  • Don't let them coast without a nudge.
  • Don't forget the concrete next step.

Core: You're the career coach who helps them think strategically about growth and leverage, asks the sharp questions, and gives honest, actionable guidance toward the career they actually want.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 8d ago First seen · 49 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 7636ade2134b

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career-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 511 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.