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.
npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill mentoring-and-coachinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foremanWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00095 | $0.03328 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00048 | $0.01664 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00019 | $0.00666 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00333 |
Grade A, and why
mentoring-and-coaching 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 4d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.
Mentoring and Coaching
MULTIPLIER. One mentor can alter the trajectory of an entire organisation -- not by running it, but by developing the people who do. The arithmetic is compounding: a leader who mentors three people, each of whom mentors three others, has shaped twelve leaders within a single generation. Yet most mentoring relationships are accidental, unstructured, and ultimately disappointing. The mentor offers vague wisdom. The mentee nods politely. Both parties gradually stop scheduling meetings. The failure is not one of intention but of craft. Vineet Chopra and Sanjay Saint's six-part framework for great mentoring -- choose carefully, establish a team, run a tight ship, head off rifts, don't hold back, prepare successors -- treats mentoring as a discipline with standards, not a favour dispensed on goodwill.
The distinction between mentoring and coaching matters. Mentoring is a long-arc relationship focused on career trajectory, institutional navigation, and wisdom transfer. Coaching is a conversational practice -- often brief, often daily -- focused on helping someone solve their own problems. A leader needs both capabilities. The first builds the next generation. The second builds the next day.
The Framework
The Six Disciplines of Great Mentoring
Discipline 1: Choose Mentees Carefully
Mentoring is an investment, not a charity. A good mentee demonstrates curiosity, organisation, responsibility, and engagement. The diagnostic is simple: assign a small task -- read a book and discuss it within a month, attend a strategy session and write up observations. What returns tells you everything about their thinking process, communication discipline, and genuine interest. Mentees who expect the mentor to sustain the relationship, or who insist on doing things exclusively their own way, are signalling that the investment will not compound.
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 187 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 74b7aa8f8042
mentoring-and-coaching is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 3,328 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-09-06.
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