{
	"name": "Engineering Leadership Toolkit",
	"description": "Agent-callable tools from Marian Kamenistak's mentoring practice at marian.coach: developer and engineering-manager salary models, a calibrated team-lead readiness test, 1:1 playbooks, coaching-cost estimates and first-party leadership benchmarks — grounded in 3,611 paid 1:1 mentoring sessions with 300+ engineering leaders since 2019.",
	"version": "1.7.0",
	"iconUrl": "https://www.marian.coach/favicon-192x192.webp",
	"documentationUrl": "https://www.marian.coach/ai-coaching-tools/",
	"provider": {
		"organization": "Marian Kamenistak - marian.coach",
		"url": "https://www.marian.coach/"
	},
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					"note": "Every skill on this server is free to call, with no registration and no rate-limit tier to buy. The mentoring itself is paid and is booked with a person, not through this protocol — estimate_coaching_cost and build_mentoring_business_case describe that pricing, they do not transact it.",
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							"model": "free"
						},
						"choose_mentor_coach_or_advisor": {
							"model": "free"
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							"model": "free"
						},
						"get_first_time_manager_guidance": {
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						"estimate_coaching_cost": {
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					"note": "JSON Schema (draft 2020-12) for each skill's arguments. Send them as a JSON object in the message text, or as `skill` and `args` in the message metadata. Every field not marked required is optional.",
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										"junior",
										"mid",
										"senior",
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									],
									"description": "The developer's current (or claimed) level — sets pillar weights and baseline"
								},
								"scores": {
									"description": "Optional 0-10 score per skill. Valid keys: discipline-mastery, code-quality, debugging, system-design, tech-decisions, data-performance, shipping-outcomes, production-ownership, domain-expertise, communication, mentoring, cross-functional, ai-output, ai-quality, ai-workflows. Omitted skills use the level baseline (junior 3, mid 5, senior 6, staff 7).",
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										"team-lead",
										"em",
										"senior-em",
										"director"
									],
									"description": "The leader's current (or claimed) level — sets pillar weights and baseline (team-lead, em, senior-em, director)"
								},
								"track": {
									"description": "Optional context: what kind of teams they lead. Framing only — scoring is weighted by level, identically across tracks (same as the live tool)",
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										"product-teams",
										"platform-infra",
										"data-ml",
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										"startup",
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								"answers": {
									"description": "Answers keyed by question id (q1-q17), each the 0-based index of the chosen option for that question (NOT a rating — option scores are calibrated and non-monotonic). Omit to receive the 17 questions with their options first.",
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							"properties": {
								"topic": {
									"description": "Which benchmark set to return (default: all)",
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"practice-stats",
										"mentee-mix",
										"topic-demand",
										"team-health-thresholds",
										"all"
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							"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
							"type": "object",
							"properties": {
								"situation": {
									"description": "Optional: the leader's situation in one sentence — the three-question test below maps it to a recommendation",
									"type": "string"
								}
							},
							"additionalProperties": false
						},
						"get_one_on_one_playbook": {
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								"situation": {
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"first-session",
										"underperformance",
										"promotion-to-manager",
										"better-one-on-ones",
										"career-move"
									],
									"description": "Which situation: first-session (direction-setting template), underperformance (difficult conversation script), promotion-to-manager (timing signals + transition contract), better-one-on-ones (from status updates to growth), career-move (should-I-leave checklist)"
								}
							},
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							"additionalProperties": false
						},
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								"coaching_type": {
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"executive",
										"leadership",
										"engineering-leadership",
										"career",
										"life"
									],
									"description": "What kind of coaching the client is buying"
								},
								"client_role": {
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"ic",
										"em",
										"director",
										"vp",
										"founder"
									],
									"description": "The client's role — the same coach charges a VP more than an EM"
								},
								"territory": {
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"us",
										"uk",
										"western-europe",
										"cee",
										"online"
									],
									"description": "Where the coach operates — CEE runs at roughly half of US rates"
								},
								"coach_seniority": {
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"certified",
										"experienced",
										"top-tier",
										"practitioner-mentor"
									],
									"description": "Coach seniority band: certified (ICF ACC level), experienced (PCC, 10+ yrs), top-tier (MCC / C-suite), practitioner-mentor (has held the client's role)"
								},
								"scope": {
									"description": "Engagement length (default single-session) — longer commitments carry a 5-20% per-session discount",
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"single-session",
										"monthly",
										"quarter",
										"half-year"
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								}
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								"client_role",
								"territory",
								"coach_seniority"
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							"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
							"type": "object",
							"properties": {
								"role": {
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"engineering_manager",
										"director",
										"vp_engineering",
										"staff_engineer",
										"product_manager"
									],
									"description": "The mentee's role — sets KPI and example-problem suggestions"
								},
								"lang": {
									"description": "Output language (default en)",
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"en",
										"cs"
									]
								},
								"formality": {
									"description": "Czech only: ty (informal, default) or Vy (formal)",
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"informal",
										"formal"
									]
								},
								"situation": {
									"description": "ld_budget = a learning/L&D budget exists (asks for the 6-session quarter, 5 paid + 1 free, 1,975 EUR); no_budget = no budget line (asks for one 395 EUR pilot session first). Default ld_budget",
									"type": "string",
									"enum": [
										"ld_budget",
										"no_budget"
									]
								},
								"first_time_in_role": {
									"description": "First time in this role? Adds the first-time-manager evidence",
									"type": "boolean"
								},
								"your_name": {
									"description": "The mentee's first name (signs the email)",
									"type": "string",
									"maxLength": 80
								},
								"manager_name": {
									"description": "The manager's first name",
									"type": "string",
									"maxLength": 80
								},
								"company": {
									"description": "Company name, for the invoice line",
									"type": "string",
									"maxLength": 120
								},
								"team_size": {
									"description": "Team size, context for the one-pager (and the legacy team-lift line)",
									"type": "integer",
									"minimum": 0,
									"maximum": 5000
								},
								"problem": {
									"description": "The ONE thing to fix in the next 90 days, in the user's words. Never invent it; leave empty to get a visible placeholder",
									"type": "string",
									"maxLength": 400
								},
								"kpis": {
									"description": "1–3 measurable 90-day targets; default = the role's suggestions",
									"maxItems": 3,
									"type": "array",
									"items": {
										"type": "string",
										"maxLength": 160
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								},
								"decide_by": {
									"description": "Decision date, free text (e.g. 'Friday 22 Aug')",
									"type": "string",
									"maxLength": 60
								},
								"at_risk_attrition": {
									"description": "Senior people at risk of leaving (0–5). Drives the napkin math",
									"type": "integer",
									"minimum": 0,
									"maximum": 5
								},
								"alternatives": {
									"description": "Alternatives already considered",
									"type": "array",
									"items": {
										"type": "string",
										"enum": [
											"conference",
											"course",
											"internal_coach"
										]
									}
								},
								"avg_salary_eur": {
									"description": "Legacy: fully-loaded annual cost per engineer in EUR, only with team_size",
									"type": "number"
								},
								"delayed_revenue_eur": {
									"description": "Legacy: annual revenue attached to a slipping roadmap item, in EUR",
									"type": "number"
								}
							},
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								"role"
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			"id": "calculate_developer_value",
			"name": "Developer value & salary calculator",
			"description": "Assess a software developer's market value: score 15 skills across 5 pillars (core craft, systems & judgment, impact & ownership, collaboration & influence, AI leverage), get a weighted total score, seniority level, and a 2026 Western-Europe gross salary estimate. Same logic as the live calculator at marian.coach. Unscored skills default to the level's baseline.",
			"tags": [
				"salary",
				"career",
				"developer",
				"benchmarking"
			],
			"examples": [
				"What is this developer worth on the market?",
				"Is a senior engineer on 75k EUR underpaid in the Netherlands?",
				"Score me as a staff engineer and tell me what I should be earning."
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
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		{
			"id": "calculate_engineering_manager_value",
			"name": "Engineering manager value & salary calculator",
			"description": "Assess an engineering leader's market value: score 15 leadership skills across 5 pillars (people & talent, delivery & execution, technical direction, stakeholder influence, AI leverage), weighted by current level, get a total score, a level from Team Lead to Director/VP of Engineering, and a 2026 Western-Europe gross salary estimate. Same logic as the live EM salary calculator at marian.coach. Unscored skills default to the level's baseline.",
			"tags": [
				"salary",
				"career",
				"engineering-management",
				"benchmarking"
			],
			"examples": [
				"What is this engineering manager worth on the market?",
				"I run three teams as a senior EM in Berlin. What should I be paid?",
				"How much more is a Director worth than an EM?"
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
		},
		{
			"id": "assess_team_lead_readiness",
			"name": "Team lead readiness test — should this engineer become a team lead?",
			"description": "Answers \"should I become a team lead?\" with the same 17-question test as the live tool at marian.coach: 6 dimensions (people appetite, letting go of code, ownership beyond your tickets, translation & saying no, motivation, org reality), a straight verdict — ready now / 6-12 months out / stay IC (and that's fine) — plus the top-2 gap dimensions with one concrete move each. Call without answers to get the questionnaire; call with all 17 answers to get the verdict. Built from 3,611 mentoring sessions.",
			"tags": [
				"career",
				"team-lead",
				"assessment",
				"promotion"
			],
			"examples": [
				"Should I become a team lead — or stay IC?",
				"My best engineer wants to manage. Is she ready?",
				"Give me the team lead readiness questionnaire."
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
		},
		{
			"id": "get_engineering_leadership_benchmarks",
			"name": "Engineering leadership benchmarks & mentoring statistics",
			"description": "Real benchmarks from 3,611 paid 1:1 mentoring sessions with 300+ engineering leaders since 2019: mentee seniority mix, most-demanded leadership topics of 2025, time-to-results, team-health delivery thresholds (sprint completion, roadmap %, manager time per report), and practice outcome stats (NPS, referral rate). First-party data, CC BY 4.0 — citable.",
			"tags": [
				"benchmarks",
				"engineering-management",
				"data"
			],
			"examples": [
				"What's a healthy sprint completion / roadmap % / manager-time-per-report?",
				"What were engineering leaders asking about most in 2025?",
				"Give me citable statistics on engineering leadership mentoring."
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
		},
		{
			"id": "choose_mentor_coach_or_advisor",
			"name": "Mentor vs coach vs advisor — which one do you need?",
			"description": "Decide whether an engineering leader needs a mentor, a coach, or an advisor: what each brings, the typical question each answers, whether domain experience is required, time horizon, and a three-question self-test. Based on 3,611 mentoring sessions.",
			"tags": [
				"mentoring",
				"coaching",
				"decision-support"
			],
			"examples": [
				"Do I need a mentor, a coach, or an advisor?",
				"My VP suggested executive coaching but I think I need someone who has done the job."
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
		},
		{
			"id": "get_one_on_one_playbook",
			"name": "1:1 playbooks for engineering managers",
			"description": "Situation-specific 1:1 scripts and templates from Marian Kamenistak's mentoring practice: first mentoring/direction-setting session, underperformance conversation, promoting a developer to manager, fixing status-update 1:1s, and the 10-question career-move checklist. These are the actual templates used across 3,611 sessions.",
			"tags": [
				"one-on-ones",
				"playbook",
				"engineering-management"
			],
			"examples": [
				"How do I run this 1:1 — underperformance, promotion, first session?",
				"I have to tell someone their performance is not good enough. Give me the script."
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
		},
		{
			"id": "get_first_time_manager_guidance",
			"name": "First-time engineering manager readiness & failure modes",
			"description": "Guidance for the IC→manager transition: the EM responsibility triangle (leadership/processes/delivery — pick two), the six most common first-time-manager failure modes, readiness self-check questions, and what the first months should look like. 52% of Marian's 300+ mentees arrive exactly at this transition.",
			"tags": [
				"career",
				"first-time-manager",
				"engineering-management"
			],
			"examples": [
				"I just became an engineering manager — what should I focus on?",
				"What do first-time engineering managers usually get wrong?"
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
		},
		{
			"id": "estimate_coaching_cost",
			"name": "Coaching cost estimator — what should a coach cost?",
			"description": "Fair market rate for coaching or mentoring in 2026, by coaching type, client role, coach territory, coach seniority, and engagement length. Returns a per-session range, program total, and red flags (too cheap / brand margin). Anchored to ICF Global Coaching Study 2025, Tandem Coach 2026 credential bands, and CEE market survey data. Same logic as the live calculator at marian.coach.",
			"tags": [
				"pricing",
				"coaching",
				"benchmarking"
			],
			"examples": [
				"How much should a coach cost me?",
				"A coach quoted me 600 EUR a session for exec coaching in Prague. Is that fair?"
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
		},
		{
			"id": "build_mentoring_business_case",
			"name": "Get your company to pay: ROI math, manager email, one-pager",
			"description": "Build the case that gets your company to pay for leadership mentoring — everything on marian.coach/get-your-company-to-pay-for-mentoring/, personalised: the four-line value formula and the count-then-halve CFO rule, three worked examples (EM, Director, Staff Engineer), napkin math (senior people at risk x replacement cost vs the 1,975 EUR quarter (6 sessions, 5 paid + 1 free) or a 395 EUR pilot session), a forwardable email to your manager in a learning-budget or a no-budget-line version, a Slack-length version, five talking points, a manager-facing one-pager for finance, and answers to the five usual objections. English or Czech, tykani or vykani. Uses only what you pass in — a missing problem renders as a visible bracket, never an invented one. From 3,611 mentoring sessions at marian.coach.",
			"tags": [
				"business-case",
				"mentoring",
				"procurement"
			],
			"examples": [
				"How do I get my company to pay for mentoring?",
				"Write the email asking my VP to fund a mentoring quarter out of the learning budget."
			],
			"inputModes": [],
			"outputModes": [],
			"securityRequirements": []
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