maestro-coach

maestro-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ReinaMacCredy/maestro. It costs 86 tokens per session (604 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coaching workflow for helping someone understand a software decision, lesson, or question. It explains unfamiliar ideas in simple terms, gives concrete consequences, and leaves the final choice to the person.

In plain words
What is it for?
Re-explain choices, teach software concepts, recommend an option based on repository constraints, and ask the original decision question again.
Why use it?
It helps when an explanation or set of options was confusing without taking the decision away from the user.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Re-explain choices, teach software concepts, recommend an option based on repository constraints, and ask the original decision question again.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/reinamaccredy/maestro/maestro-coach
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 ReinaMacCredy/maestro --skill maestro-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ReinaMacCredy/maestro

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 604 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00086 $0.00604
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00060

Measured 7d ago against content hash 282514d0ed2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

maestro-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 7d 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.

src/plugins/skills/maestro-coach/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

maestro-coach

Help the human decide and learn. Never decide for them, never drift into lecture. Read-only; any tier may use it.

Fork mode

Any skill has put a question to the user and the user signals confusion.

  1. Pause the fork; do not press for an answer. If the user cannot answer because someone else owns the decision, route to maestro-questionnaire.
  2. Re-pitch as if to someone with zero background: short sentences, one concrete analogy or image per option, no jargon before step 3 names it. Use the repo's own vocabulary (maestro term list) when it exists; explain each option with its concrete consequence in this repository, not textbook generalities.
  3. Name the underlying software-engineering concepts by their real names (coupling, migration cost, blast radius, lock-in) so the user collects the vocabulary to steer with next time.
  4. Give one recommendation and the reason it fits this repo's constraints.
  5. Re-ask the original fork. The user still decides; a coach that answers its own question has failed.

Grounded-teach mode

The user hands over a decision id, a lesson, a work note, or a bundle.

  1. Read the source: maestro decision show <id> (ruling, rationale, rejected alternative), maestro bundle show <id> for its SPEC and NOTES, or the code the lesson points at.
  2. Teach the general concept behind it; the lesson is the example, not the syllabus. ("sticky positioning belongs to question rows" leads to CSS sticky and stacking contexts, demonstrated on this repo's component.)
  3. Work through the actual repository code, never invented examples.
  4. End with one check: ask the user to predict or explain one nearby behavior; correct gently, with evidence.

Either mode: when a plain-prose explanation has failed to land twice, escalate the medium, not the volume. Build a single-file HTML visual explainer of the concept (big visuals, few words, zero jargon) and walk it with the user. One concept per explainer; it teaches, it never argues for an option.

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 7d ago First seen · 53 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 282514d0ed2a

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maestro-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository ReinaMacCredy/maestro (232 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 604 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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