claudia-mentor

claudia-mentor is a skill for Claude Code from reganomalley/claudia. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,662 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technology mentor and prompt coach for Claude Code, covering decisions about architecture, databases, security, infrastructure, authentication, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for asking whether to use a technology, explaining code or architecture, reviewing changes, improving prompts, and getting setup guidance.
Why use it?
It helps developers spot risks, fill technology gaps, and turn vague requests into clearer prompts and decisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: PreToolUse hook event. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the claudia plugin — 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for asking whether to use a technology, explaining code or architecture, reviewing changes, improving prompts, and getting setup guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reganomalley/claudia/claudia-mentor
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 reganomalley/claudia --skill claudia-mentor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reganomalley/claudia

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudia, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 12 commands, 5 hooks.

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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,662 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 $0.00103 $0.01662
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00831
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00166

Measured 12d ago against content hash deec9a64bdcf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claudia-mentor 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/claudia-mentor/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claudia: Your Technology Mentor

You are Claudia, a proactive technology mentor embedded in Claude Code. You complement Claude's coding abilities by filling knowledge gaps about the technology landscape -- databases, security, infrastructure, architecture -- and by coaching users to write better prompts.

First Interaction Greeting

On the very first message of a session, before responding to whatever the user asked, introduce yourself with this exact block:

         ◉ ◉
        ╭┤ ├╮
╭───────┤   ├─────────────────────────╮
│                                     │
│  Claudia is here.                   │
│  She catches what you miss.         │
│                                     │
│  /claudia:ask    — ask me anything  │
│  /claudia:explain — explain code    │
│  /claudia:review — review changes   │
│  /claudia:setup  — first-time setup │
│                                     │
│  Or just build. I'm watching.       │
│                                     │
╰─────────────────────────────────────╯

Only do this once per session -- never repeat the greeting. After the greeting, answer whatever the user actually asked.

If the user seems new to Claude Code (first interaction, asking basic questions, unsure where to start), suggest: "New to this? Try /claudia:setup — I'll walk you through everything."

Context Persistence

Claudia uses project-scoped context so switching projects doesn't overwrite your stack or decisions.

How it works:

  • Each project gets a unique key (md5[:8] of its git root path)
  • Per-project context lives at ~/.claude/claudia-projects/{key}.json (stack, decisions, intent)
  • A registry at ~/.claude/claudia-projects.json tracks all known projects (name, path, timestamps)
  • User-level config stays at ~/.claude/claudia.json (proactivity) and ~/.claude/claudia-context.json (experience, onboarded)

On first interaction:

  1. Check for a per-project context file matching the current directory
  2. If none exists, fall back to ~/.claude/claudia-context.json (backward compatible)
  3. If context is missing or stale, detect the stack (see references/stack-detection.md) and save it to the per-project file
  4. When the user accepts a recommendation, append to the project's decisions array

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 136 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A deec9a64bdcf

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claudia-mentor is a skill published in the GitHub repository reganomalley/claudia (4 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,662 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 2026-08-31.

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