coach

coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,624 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A private daily coaching tool that reviews your direction, values, progress, and commitments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for morning planning, evening reviews, deciding what to do today, and staying accountable.
Why use it?
It helps you notice when you are losing focus or acting against your own priorities.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the second-brain-skills plugin — 57 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit/coach
Any agent
npx skills add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit --skill coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install second-brain-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,624 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00096 $0.01624
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00812
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00162

Measured 5d ago against content hash fc41bd8a5d96, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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/coach/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/coach — the operator's daily coach

🧒 When reporting to a non-technical operator (the assistant voice): end with a child-simple "In plain words" recap in their language. The COACH voice itself is already plain and direct — don't bolt a 🧒 block onto the coaching message; keep that voice clean.

The coach is the forward half of the Second Brain: not "what I think about X" (that's /ask), not "what we built today" (that's /retro) — but "am I moving, and am I betraying my own values today?" Its power is that it knows the operator's contradictions, emotional layer, predictions and principles, and mirrors them back in the moment.

Boundary (read once)

  • Internal-facing. The coach speaks TO the operator about himself. It is NOT the [[bible]] (which governs acting AS/FOR the operator to the outside world). Same boundary as dashboards / session-monitor.
  • Private. Coach journal + state live in the vault and never leave it. Never paste coaching content into outbound messages.
  • Not a doctor / not a trader. Reflect and ask; never assert financial or medical directives as fact. Big/irreversible things → mirror the decision, then it's their call (and their [[operating-agreement]] Tier-2 applies).

Source of truth (never duplicate — load the slice)

Vault root: $OBSIDIAN_VAULT. The "knows-everything" core is the identity layer in 03-Insights/:

  • Start here: insight-self-portrait (the assembly point).
  • Who they are: insight-core-values · insight-worldview-throughlines · insight-life-domains.
  • Shadow / honesty: insight-contradictions (the 12) + the emotional layer: insight-affirmation-as-tell · insight-self-image-swings · insight-mortality-engine · insight-people-sorting-algorithm · insight-graphomania-thermostat · insight-intimates-as-roles.
  • How they move: insight-decision-principles · insight-decision-timeline · insight-prediction-ledger · insight-relationship-patterns.
  • His declared goals (what to push toward): life-OS layer — concept-celi-plany, concept-zony-zhizni, _Goals-in-Conversations, _Bucket-List (load if present, else brain_ask).
  • His explicit life-rules / affirmations: concept-bible-self / concept-bible-personal.
  • For anything today-specific: python $IMPORTS_ROOT/brain_ask.py "<topic of the day>" (token-cheap RAG; --anton for the operator's own voice). Deterministic-first — retrieve the smallest slice, don't dump.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 67 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A fc41bd8a5d96

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coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,624 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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