finding-mentors-sponsors

finding-mentors-sponsors is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,250 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A planning guide for finding mentors who give advice and sponsors who advocate for your opportunities. It covers people inside and outside your workplace, including career coaches.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify potential mentors or sponsors, write outreach messages, prepare first-meeting agendas, choose a career coach, and track ongoing relationships.
Why use it?
It turns a vague networking goal into a list of people to approach, clear messages, focused conversations, and a follow-up routine.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to identify potential mentors or sponsors, write outreach messages, prepare first-meeting agendas, choose a career coach, and track ongoing relationships.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/finding-mentors-sponsors
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 liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus --skill finding-mentors-sponsors
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,250 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 $0.00026 $0.02250
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01125
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00225

Measured 12d ago against content hash ce467077d277, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finding-mentors-sponsors 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 12d 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/finding-mentors-sponsors/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finding Mentors & Sponsors

Scope

Covers

  • Clarifying what you actually need: mentor (advice) vs sponsor (bets political capital)
  • Building a portfolio of mentors (not “one perfect oracle”)
  • Identifying and prioritizing potential mentors/sponsors (internal + external) with a warm-path plan
  • Writing outreach messages that are honest, specific, and easy to say yes/no to
  • Running high-signal first conversations (agenda, questions, close, follow-up)
  • Turning conversations into an operating system (cadence + value exchange + tracking)
  • Optional: evaluating and selecting a career coach (interview multiple; pick for fit)

When to use

  • “Help me find a mentor.”
  • “I need a sponsor / advocate at work.”
  • “Write outreach messages to reach out to potential mentors.”
  • “How do I ask for mentorship without being awkward?”
  • “I need a system to build relationships and get guidance for my career.”

When NOT to use

  • You already have sponsors and need to build a promotion packet — use building-a-promotion-case (this pack builds the network; that pack uses it for a promo push)
  • You want to improve your relationship with your current manager (not find new mentors) — use managing-up
  • You are planning a career pivot and need a transition roadmap — use career-transitions (this pack can complement it for networking, but the decision framework lives there)
  • You need a PM coaching framework for your reports — use coaching-pms
  • You need therapy/mental-health support (use a licensed professional)
  • You’re in an HR/performance escalation (PIP/investigation) where advice could be sensitive — follow the formal process first
  • You only want a resume/LinkedIn rewrite (use a resume/job-search workflow)
  • You want spammy mass outreach or “growth hacking” people — this pack assumes respectful, relationship-based asks

Inputs

Minimum required

  • Your current role/level + domain (e.g., “PM in B2B SaaS, 5 years experience”)
  • The outcome you want in the next 3–6 months (promotion readiness, leadership growth, domain mastery, etc.)
  • 2–4 skill gaps or problems you want help with
  • Your constraints (time per week, confidentiality, internal vs external, comfort with outreach)
  • Your current network starting point (at least 5 names or communities, even if weak ties)

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 12d ago First seen · 138 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ce467077d277

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finding-mentors-sponsors is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,250 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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