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 jamestorrevillas/dev-skills --skill career-growthgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamestorrevillas/dev-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamestorrevillas/dev-skills/career-growth)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamestorrevillas/dev-skills/career-growth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jamestorrevillas/dev-skills/career-growth/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamestorrevillas/dev-skills/career-growth"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jamestorrevillas/dev-skills/career-growth.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00060 | $0.00611 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00305 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00122 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00061 |
Grade A, and why
career-growth 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 11d 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 — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Career Growth
The Developer Growth Model
Technical skills alone don't drive career growth. The formula:
Impact = Technical Skill × Communication × Ownership × Visibility
All four multiply — zero in any one = zero impact perception.
Levels of Developer Maturity
| Level | Focus | What Distinguishes You |
|---|---|---|
| Junior | Task execution | Completes assigned work |
| Mid | Feature ownership | Owns a feature end-to-end, asks fewer questions |
| Senior | System thinking | Thinks about trade-offs, teaches others, improves the team |
| Staff+ | Org impact | Shapes direction, multiplies other engineers |
To level up: Consistently operate at the level above your current one.
90-Day Growth Plan Template
GOAL: [specific capability or outcome in 90 days]
Month 1 — Foundation
- Learn: [specific skill/concept]
- Build: [small project or contribution]
- Measure: [how you'll know you've made progress]
Month 2 — Application
- Apply: [use the skill in real work]
- Teach: [explain it to someone else]
- Stretch: [attempt something harder]
Month 3 — Mastery
- Lead: [own something using this skill]
- Document: [write about what you learned]
- Review: [evaluate against original goal]
Skill Gap Analysis
Ask AI:
I'm a [current level] developer working with [stack].
I want to become a [target level/role].
What skill gaps do I likely have?
Prioritize by: (1) impact on current work, (2) career value.
Visibility Without Bragging
Growth requires visibility. Do this without self-promotion:
- Write internal documentation others will use
- Present your work in demos or team meetings
- Write commit messages and PR descriptions that tell a story
- Share what you learned from a bug in a team channel
- Review others' code thoughtfully — your name appears in their PRs
The Mentoring Multiplier
Teaching accelerates your own learning by 2x:
- Document your processes, not just your code
- Offer to explain concepts to teammates
- Write "what I learned" notes after completing complex tasks
- Pair program intentionally
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 93 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 67286775f5c8
career-growth is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamestorrevillas/dev-skills (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 611 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.
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