coaching-models

Coaching helps another person examine a goal, the current reality, possible actions, and a chosen commitment. This skill prepares one GROW conversation, a longer coaching cycle, or an audit without scripting the coachee's answers.

It produces:

• Coaching Session Prep (A. Session prep): built from a development topic, supplied facts, and a desired outcome.
• Coaching Cycle Plan (B. Coaching cycle): built from a development outcome, practice opportunities, and review horizon.
• Coaching Plan Audit (C. Audit): built from an existing coaching plan or set of notes.

It executes the Coaching Models playbook. The playbook teaches the framework. This skill runs it and returns a working artifact.

Static by construction: no dependencies, executable code, telemetry, network calls, remote instructions, auto-update, scheduled work, or background behavior. It reads only the files in its own skill folder. Nothing happens until a user or agent invokes it.

Install

Clone and copy the skill into Claude Code:

git clone https://github.com/andrewluxem/coaching-models.git
cp -r coaching-models/skills/coaching-models ~/.claude/skills/

Or install it as a Claude Code plugin:

/plugin marketplace add andrewluxem/coaching-models
/plugin install coaching-models@coaching-models

For clients that install from an archive, keep using the versioned coaching-models v1.0.0 ZIP.

Invoke it

Prep a coaching conversation for this situation
Prep a coaching conversation for a team member who wants to improve weekly
Build a coaching cycle from these notes. Communication needs work. There were a

Naming the skill is always valid: use the coaching-models skill.

Files

.claude-plugin/
  plugin.json
  marketplace.json
skills/coaching-models/
  SKILL.md
  meta.yaml
  LICENSE.md
  assets/
  references/
README.md
LICENSE

The complete canonical package is copied under skills/coaching-models/, including every asset, reference, example, and license file present in the source.

Versioning

Plugin installation is version-pinned. When behavior changes, update the version consistently in SKILL.md, meta.yaml, and .claude-plugin/plugin.json, then add a changelog entry. Reinstalling is an explicit update; this repository never auto-updates itself.

License

MIT. See LICENSE. The canonical skill folder carries the same authorization in skills/coaching-models/LICENSE.md.

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More playbooks

This skill packages one playbook from the free library at github.com/andrewluxem/playbooks. Every playbook is free to read, with no email required.