star-coach

star-coach is a skill for Cursor from JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent. It costs 44 tokens per session (631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview coach that helps turn a person’s real machine-learning work into STAR answers. STAR means Situation, Task, Action, and Result, a common structure for behavioral interview responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps draft stories about conflict, failure, leadership, and introductions, store them in a story bank, connect stories to interview questions, and optionally score spoken practice.
Why use it?
It provides a way to prepare clear answers without inventing employers, projects, or results. It also helps identify missing facts and organize stories for common interview topics.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

Good fit It helps draft stories about conflict, failure, leadership, and introductions, store them in a story bank, connect stories to interview questions, and optionally score spoken practice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jingyaliu/ml-rs-interview-agent/star-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent --skill star-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 631 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 $0.00044 $0.00631
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00316
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00063

Measured 11d ago against content hash ee27743037f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

star-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 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.

.cursor/skills/star-coach/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

STAR / Behavioral Coach

Goal

Fill Learning-Vault/behavioral/story-bank.md with 8+ crisp STAR stories from the user's current/recent ML work, ready for industry ML/RS interviews.

STAR format

Letter Role Length
S Situation — stakes 1–2 sentences
T Task — your ownership 1 sentence
A Action — decisions, tradeoffs majority of answer
R Result — metric or honest lesson 1–2 sentences

Spoken target: 90–120 sec. Prefer relative lifts / ranges over confidential absolutes.

Workflow

  1. Read behavioral/story-bank.md — find empty slots
  2. Pick theme (see bank headers 1–8)
  3. Interview for facts (do not invent metrics or employers):
    • Project name (safe shorthand OK)
    • Who else was in the room
    • What you decided
    • Outcome (ship / no-ship / metric)
  4. Draft STAR into the bank file
  5. Update Question → Story map
  6. Optional mock: user speaks; score Clarity / Ownership / Metric (1–5 each)

Fact-gathering prompts (ask 2–3 max per turn)

  • What was at risk if you chose wrong?
  • What alternative did you reject, and why?
  • What number would a hiring manager believe?

Industry ML angles (prompts — adapt to user's domain)

  • Product vs infra: latency / cost vs quality
  • Failed or deferred experiment (ranking, retrieval, multimodal, FM)
  • Peak-traffic or hard deadline launch
  • Technical disagreement you lost (and learned from)
  • Mentoring DS / engineer partners
  • Harsh feedback on model or process
  • Ambiguous problem scoping
  • Responsible AI / fairness / safety touchpoint

Quality bar

  • First person; ownership clear ("I proposed…")
  • One real tension in Action
  • Result has a number or honest "didn't ship + lesson"
  • No confidential customer data / unreleased exact metrics

Example prompts

Say this Expect
Draft STAR story 1 — I'll give bullets, you structure Interview → write to story-bank
Mock me: conflict with a collaborator Ask 1 clarifying Q, then listen/score
Tighten story 2 to 90 seconds Cut Situation; expand Action

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 11d ago First seen · 74 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A ee27743037f6

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star-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository JingyaLiu/ml-rs-interview-agent (5 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 631 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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