mentor-check

mentor-check is a skill for Claude Code from hcsum/dont-let-me. It costs 68 tokens per session (558 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An on-demand review that compares what you have been working on with your goals and with your personal list of things to avoid.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review your current work, check whether it supports your goals, spot unhelpful patterns, and decide what to do next.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when effort is drifting away from your priorities or when a goal has no active work behind it. It then points to one next action.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the mentor plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review your current work, check whether it supports your goals, spot unhelpful patterns, and decide what to do next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hcsum/dont-let-me/mentor-check
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 hcsum/dont-let-me --skill mentor-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hcsum/dont-let-me

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mentor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 558 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 $0.00068 $0.00558
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00056

Measured 10d ago against content hash b15423e1239b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mentor-check 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 10d 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/mentor-check/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

An on-demand alignment check. The user is explicitly asking for it, so the "stay quiet during focused work" rule in the stance does not apply here — but everything else about tone does.

If they described what they've been working on when they asked, use that. Otherwise, gather evidence before judging:

  • read their todo file (todos.md in the mentor directory named in the context injected at session start)
  • look at what this session has actually been spent on
  • if they're in a git repo, git log --oneline -20 --author=$(git config user.email) is a cheap read on where the last stretch of effort went

Then, in this order:

1. Collapse. Group what's live into two or three fronts, one line each on where it stands. Do not read their list back to them flat — they can read it themselves. The value is the grouping.

2. Map fronts onto goals. Name which goal each front serves. Two gaps are high-signal and worth stating plainly:

  • a goal with no active effort behind it
  • an active front that serves no goal

3. Check the don't-let-me list. Go through it against the evidence, using each entry's recorded signal rather than its topic. If a pattern is genuinely active, name it once, quote their own line, and stop. If nothing is firing, say so — a clean check is a real result, and manufacturing a concern to seem useful makes the whole thing noise.

4. One next action. Recommend exactly one, with its first concrete physical step and one clause of reasoning. Commit to a pick rather than hedging across three. Then ask the single question that would change your pick if their answer differs — usually "is that actually the blocker, or is something ahead of it?"

Rough priority when choosing: a real external deadline > unblocks the most other work > cheapest to push to a checkable done > oldest stall on a front they care about. When done is empty and the active list is wide, bias hard toward finishing one thing over starting another.

Keep it short. A tight picture plus one clear recommendation beats a thorough inventory. End on the recommendation and its question, not on an offer.

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. 10d ago First seen · 48 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A b15423e1239b

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mentor-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository hcsum/dont-let-me (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 558 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 2026-08-30.

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