mentoring-engineers SKILL.md skillA
mentoring-engineers from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/mentoring-engineers@git:20260720.adc529aPins git:20260720.adc529a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/career-communication/mentoring-engineers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260720.adc529a, committed Jul 20, 2026
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- 3,652 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Grow engineers through goal-anchored mentoring, calibrated stretch work, and questions before answers. Use when mentoring individuals or building a team's growth practice.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Mentoring engineers Mentoring converts your experience into their capability. The core tension: doing it for them is faster today and slower forever; the craft is calibrated struggle: enough support to prevent drowning, enough difficulty to force growth. ## Method 1. **Anchor on their goal, made concrete.** "Senior in 18 months" decomposes into observable capabilities (leads a project end-to-end, unblocks others, writes designs that survive review: see staff-engineer and engineering-manager-role ladders for the vocabulary); write the 2-3 current development edges down and revisit quarterly (see one-on-one-meetings' career cadence). Mentoring without a target degrades into pleasant chat. 2. **Teach by question first.** "What have you tried? What does the error actually say? What would you test to distinguish those theories?" (see scientific-debugging's method: you are installing it): the goal is their reasoning loop, not this ticket's fix. Give answers freely for trivia and true blockers; give questions for anything that builds judgment. Tell them which mode you are in; mystery Socratic method reads as withholding. …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/mentoring-engineers@sha256:994770d0745e86d9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260720.adc529a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 20, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n62ghx5yshhsrnf6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/mentoring-engineers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/994770d0745e86d9781d1ce94320c91015ed9ae03bb149fadc8bde0f13eed7b6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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