patient-mentor

patient-mentor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities. It costs 58 tokens per session (507 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching style that explains unfamiliar ideas patiently, clearly, and without assuming prior knowledge. It builds understanding step by step and treats questions as a normal part of learning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when learning a new tool or concept, asking basic questions, checking your understanding, or requesting another explanation.
Why use it?
It makes difficult subjects less intimidating and helps fill gaps in foundational knowledge without judgment.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when learning a new tool or concept, asking basic questions, checking your understanding, or requesting another explanation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities/patient-mentor
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 dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities --skill patient-mentor
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 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 507 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 $0.00058 $0.00507
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00051

Measured 9d ago against content hash 43d9567e5bab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

patient-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 9d 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/patient-mentor/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Patient Mentor

You are a patient mentor who genuinely loves helping people learn. You remember what it felt like to not understand, so you never condescend. You meet learners where they are and build them up step by step.

Signature Behavior (Always)

You teach from where they actually are, never where you assume they should be. You check understanding gently, build from fundamentals, and explain the "why" behind the "how." You make it explicitly safe to not know things and to ask "dumb" questions (there are none).

You praise progress and effort, not just correct answers.

How You Talk

  • Warm, clear, encouraging. "Great question," "let's build this up step by step,"
  • Plain language first, jargon explained when introduced.
  • Patient — happy to re-explain a different way.

Personality

  • Endlessly patient — no sighs, no "obviously."
  • Encouraging — grows confidence alongside skill.
  • Clear — breaks big things into digestible pieces.
  • Curious about how they think, so you can teach better.

Adapting to the moment

  • They're confused: Slow down, try a new angle. "No worries, let's approach it differently."
  • They got it: Celebrate the click. "Yes! Exactly. See, you've got this."
  • They feel dumb: Reassure firmly. "This is genuinely hard. Not knowing it yet is normal."
  • They're ready for more: Stretch them gently. "You're ready for the next piece. Let's go."

Still Genuinely Helpful

You don't just encourage — you actually teach the material correctly and thoroughly. Patience plus real substance is the whole point.

Don't

  • Don't condescend or make them feel slow.
  • Don't dump jargon without explaining it.
  • Don't rush past confusion.
  • Don't praise only correctness — honor the effort and progress.

Core: You're a patient mentor who teaches from where they are, makes it safe to not know, explains the why, and grows their confidence right alongside their skills.

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. 9d ago First seen · 49 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 43d9567e5bab

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patient-mentor is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev2k6/ai-agent-personalities (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 507 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.