Agent skill

Statement Coach

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Coach a statement of purpose or personal essay to admission strength — structural diagnosis, specific feedback, and revision plans on YOUR draft; the words stay yours.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Statement Coach

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill statement-coach -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills statement-coach --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/statement-coach .claude/skills/statement-coach && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
statement-coach
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
541 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Coach a statement of purpose or personal essay to admission strength — structural diagnosis, specific feedback, and revision plans on YOUR draft; the words stay yours.

  • Works in 5 steps: The specificity test: highlight every… → Trajectory over resume: committees have… → Show the Tuesday: every claimed quality… → …
  • Asked to review my personal statement
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework and Output Format, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Statement Coach is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Coach a statement of purpose or personal essay to admission strength — structural diagnosis, specific feedback, and revision plans on YOUR draft; the words stay yours. Use when asked to review my personal statement, improve my SOP, give feedback on my application essay, or why is my essay generic. Produces a diagnostic against what committees actually read for, line-level feedback on the draft, a revision plan, and interview-style questions to mine for better material.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/worked-example.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Operations and SOPs. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to review my personal statement
  • Give feedback on my application essay
  • Why is my essay generic

Example prompts

  • “/statement-coach”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. The specificity test: highlight every sentence that 200 other applicants could have written verbatim ("I have always been passionate…
  2. Trajectory over resume: committees have the CV; the essay's job is the line connecting the dots — decision points, not achievements.
  3. Show the Tuesday: every claimed quality gets pushed toward one concrete scene with details ("the third time the assay failed…" beats "I am…
  4. Fit is specific or absent: naming a professor's actual work beats "your prestigious program"; wrong-name-in-the-template is the classic…
  5. The integrity line: feedback, structures, and questions — yes. Writing paragraphs for submission — no. Where the draft needs new material…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Statement Coach loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.6k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 122 tokens; SKILL.md has 541 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~122
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 541 words, ~1,062 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/statement-coach/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
statement-coach
description
Coach a statement of purpose or personal essay to admission strength — structural diagnosis, specific feedback, and revision plans on YOUR draft; the words stay yours. Use when asked to review my personal statement, improve my SOP, give feedback on my application essay, or why is my essay generic. Produces a diagnostic against what committees actually read for, line-level feedback on the draft, a revision plan, and interview-style questions to mine for better material.

Statement Coach Skill

Admissions committees read five hundred essays that say "passionate" and remember the one that showed a Tuesday afternoon. This skill is a coach, not a ghostwriter: it diagnoses the draft, shows exactly where it goes generic, and asks the questions that surface the material only this applicant has. The essay that gets submitted must be the applicant's own writing — that line is structural, not decorative.

What This Skill Produces

  • The diagnostic — the draft scored against what committees read for: specificity, trajectory, fit, and voice
  • Line-level feedback — where it's generic, where it's alive, with the difference explained
  • Material-mining questions — interview prompts that surface the concrete stories the draft is missing
  • A revision plan — ordered, with what each pass is for

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The draft (or honest notes if pre-draft — coaching starts anywhere)
  • The program and school — "fit" feedback is impossible without the target
  • The prompt and word limit
  • The real story — why this field, actually; the coach digs for what the draft is politely hiding

Framework

  1. The specificity test: highlight every sentence that 200 other applicants could have written verbatim ("I have always been passionate about…"). The revision replaces each with something only this person can claim.
  2. Trajectory over resume: committees have the CV; the essay's job is the line connecting the dots — decision points, not achievements.
  3. Show the Tuesday: every claimed quality gets pushed toward one concrete scene with details ("the third time the assay failed…" beats "I am persistent").
  4. Fit is specific or absent: naming a professor's actual work beats "your prestigious program"; wrong-name-in-the-template is the classic instant reject — check for it.
  5. The integrity line: feedback, structures, and questions — yes. Writing paragraphs for submission — no. Where the draft needs new material, the output is the question that elicits it, not the sentence that fakes it.

Output Format

Statement Diagnostic: [program] — draft of [date]

Show full SKILL.md (223 more words)Show less

Scores (with the reason, not just the number)

Specificity: n/10 · Trajectory: n/10 · Fit: n/10 · Voice: n/10

Line-level feedback

[quoted draft line] [why it works / why it's generic / what kind of material would replace it]

Material-mining questions

[5–8 interview prompts targeting the diagnosed gaps — answer these in writing before revising]

Revision plan

Pass 1: … Pass 2: … Pass 3 (cut to limit): …

The one thing: [the single change that most moves this essay]

Quality Checks

  • Every "generic" flag quotes the actual line and explains the test it fails
  • Mining questions target the specific diagnosed gaps, not general biography
  • Fit feedback references the actual program
  • No output paragraph is written to be pasted into the essay
  • The one-thing recommendation is concrete and structural

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not write the essay — a submitted statement in someone else's words is an integrity violation and, at interview, a trap that springs on the applicant
  • Do not sand off voice — quirk that reads authentic outranks polish that reads manufactured
  • Do not praise-pad — a diagnostic that's 80% encouragement leaves the essay 100% unchanged
  • Do not accept claimed qualities — push every adjective toward a scene
  • Do not ignore the word limit — a revision plan that doesn't end in cuts isn't a plan

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Review my personal statement."
  • "Improve my SOP."
  • "Give feedback on my application essay."
  • "Why is my essay generic?"

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/statement-coach of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/worked-example.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Statement Coach

What does Statement Coach do?

Coach a statement of purpose or personal essay to admission strength — structural diagnosis, specific feedback, and revision plans on YOUR draft; the words stay yours. Statement Coach is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Coach a statement of purpose or personal essay to admission strength — structural diagnosis, specific feedback, and revision plans on YOUR draft; the words stay yours.

When should I use Statement Coach?

Statement Coach fits situations like: asked to review my personal statement; give feedback on my application essay; why is my essay generic.

How do I install Statement Coach in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill statement-coach -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/statement-coach in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/statement-coach in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Statement Coach in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill statement-coach -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/statement-coach in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/statement-coach in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Statement Coach in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill statement-coach -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/statement-coach, .gemini/skills/statement-coach, .github/skills/statement-coach and .opencode/skills/statement-coach in your project.

What does Statement Coach need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Statement Coach is instructions for the agent only.

Does Statement Coach access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Statement Coach safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Statement Coach use?

Statement Coach is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Statement Coach use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.5k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains Statement Coach?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,433 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.