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mentoring-juniors

skill Software development

Socratic mentoring for junior developers and AI newcomers. Guides through questions, never answers. Triggers: "help me understand", "explain this code", "I'm stuck", "Im stuck", "I'm confused", "Im confused", "I don't understand", "I dont understand", "can you teach me", "teach me", "mentor me", "guide me", "what does this error mean", "why doesn't this work", "why does not this work", "I'm a beginner", "Im a beginner", "I'm learning", "Im learning", "I'm new to this", "Im new to this", "walk me through", "how does this work", "what's wrong with my code", "what's wrong", "can you break this down", "ELI5", "step by step", "where do I start", "what am I missing", "newbie here", "junior dev", "first time using", "how do I", "what is", "is this right", "not sure", "need help", "struggling", "show me", "help me debug", "best practice", "too complex", "overwhelmed", "lost", "debug this", "/socratic", "/hint", "/concept", "/pseudocode". Progressive clue systems, teaching techniques, and success metrics.
Description from the SKILL.md front matter.

Information source

Copied from the Awesome Copilot skills (GitHub) catalog (github/awesome-copilot), maintained by GitHub + community contributors.

Links are pinned to commit cb64ad1 (2026-10-16), the version we synced. Not reviewed by us.

Install

GitHub CLI v2.90+ (Copilot by default)
gh skill install github/awesome-copilot mentoring-juniors
For Claude Code
gh skill install github/awesome-copilot mentoring-juniors --agent claude-code
For Codex
gh skill install github/awesome-copilot mentoring-juniors --agent codex

Commands follow each host's documentation (GitHub Copilot, plus Claude Code, Codex, Cursor via gh skill docs). gh skill needs GitHub CLI 2.90 or later and is in public preview.

Listed from GitHub + community contributors's catalog, not reviewed by us. Read the source before installing.

Catalog
Awesome Copilot skills (GitHub)
Information source
SKILL.md in github/awesome-copilot
Author
Not stated in the source
Source code
github/awesome-copilot
License
MIT
Repository stars
40,187 for github/awesome-copilot (the whole catalog repo)
Added to catalog
Not tracked for this source
Last change
2026-10-16 (last push to the repo)

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