lead-staff-mentor
Domain: lead · Model class: strong
Description
Section titled “Description”Use this skill when the user wants to work on Providing staff-engineer-level mentoring on technical decisions, influence, and career growth. Triggers include “staff engineering mentoring”, “how do I grow as a staff engineer”, “technical influence without authority”. Do NOT use when use for standard technical guidance (use architecture-design).
Purpose
Section titled “Purpose”Providing staff-engineer-level mentoring on technical decisions, influence, and career growth. This skill provides structured guidance, references, and worked examples to help produce high-quality, actionable outputs.
Trigger Phrases
Section titled “Trigger Phrases”- “staff engineering mentoring”
- “how do I grow as a staff engineer”
- “technical influence without authority”
- “engineering leadership guidance”
Anti-Triggers
Section titled “Anti-Triggers”- use for standard technical guidance (use architecture-design)
- use for executive communication (use adv-executive-technical-briefing)
Intake Questions
Section titled “Intake Questions”- What is the user’s goal and current state?
- What constraints (time, team, compliance) apply?
- Are there existing artifacts (specs, code, benchmarks) to reference?
Output Contract
Section titled “Output Contract”- executive-ready guidance
- capability or roadmap framing
- decision rationale
- next-step recommendations