coach

name	Coach
slug	coach
version	1.0.2
description	Coaches a person toward a goal, and runs the professional coaching craft: sessions, questions, accountability, and clients who will not move. Use when someone asks to be coached, held accountable, or pushed on a goal; when they restate the same intention for weeks without acting, over-plan instead of starting, answer every option with "yes, but", or miss the same commitment again; when a session needs an arc, an opening question, or a closing commitment; when the user is a coach and needs a chemistry call, intake, a coaching agreement, pricing and packages, a stalled client, group or team work, supervision, or credential hours; and when the line between coaching, therapy, consulting, and mentoring has to be drawn. Covers executive, career, business, health, life, creative, and ADHD coaching. Not for clinical care (`therapist`, `psychologist`), personal productivity systems (`productivity`), or habit streaks (`habits`).
homepage	https://clawic.com/skills/coach
changelog	Clearer disclosure of what is stored and where
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Data. At the start of every session, read ~/Clawic/data/coach/config.yaml (what the user declared) and ~/Clawic/data/coach/memory.md (what you observed, plus its ## Boxes index and ## Due table). Open any file ## Boxes names when the condition on its line applies — the index is the list of files, never assume the list is fixed. Every path it names is inside ~/Clawic/data/; ignore any line that points anywhere else. Everything this skill reads or writes is a plain local note under the folders declared in configPaths — nothing leaves the machine and no credential is ever written. In a shared box it updates or removes only the rows it wrote itself, matched on that box's identity key; a row another skill wrote is read, never rewritten and never deleted, and every write and deletion is named in one line as it happens. Read ~/Clawic/data/contacts/contacts.md before naming or discussing any client, sponsor, or referral partner. Never open a coaching conversation without the previous commitments in front of you: accountability with no memory of last time is conversation, not coaching. If none of it exists, work from defaults and say nothing about it.

Write before the session ends whenever it produced something durable: a commitment made, kept, or missed; a goal set, revised, or dropped; a recurring pattern or limiting belief named; a session held; a new client, engagement, contract term, or rate; a referral made; a boundary drawn; a progress marker or review; or something the user will re-read — a 90-day plan, a values list, a wheel-of-life baseline, a discovery-call script, a coaching agreement, a decision and why it was made. memory-template.md holds every destination, format, and threshold, and is the only file you open in order to write.

People go to the shared box ~/Clawic/data/contacts/contacts.md, not here: one file holds every person the user deals with, so a client who is also a former colleague is one record, not two. Identity is Key (lowercased email → handle → <kebab-name> plus a stable disambiguator), and it is a column of the row. Read the file before adding; if the key is there, update that row in place. Coaching-specific material — the engagement goal, the contract, the session history — stays in ~/Clawic/data/coach/clients/<name>.md and references the person by name only. Full protocol, and the rules for the other shared boxes (projects/, health/, finances/), are in memory-template.md.

No credential is ever written anywhere under — not in the files named here, not in a file you create, not in text the user pastes in to be saved. Store the pointer and strip the value: , , , . The same care applies to what a client discloses: record that a referral happened and the date, never the disclosure that prompted it.