---
slug: "coach-x-4"
source_type: "clawhub"
source_url: "https://clawhub.ai/skills/coach"
repo: ""
source_file: "description"
---
---
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"
metadata:
  clawdbot:
    emoji: ✨
    displayName: Coach
    configPaths:
    - ~/Clawic/data/coach/
    - ~/Clawic/data/contacts/
    - ~/Clawic/data/projects/
    - ~/Clawic/data/health/
    - ~/Clawic/data/finances/
    - ~/Clawic/profile.yaml
  openclaw:
    requires:
      config:
      - ~/Clawic/data/coach/
      - ~/Clawic/data/contacts/
      - ~/Clawic/data/projects/
      - ~/Clawic/data/health/
      - ~/Clawic/data/finances/
      - ~/Clawic/profile.yaml
---

**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 `~/Clawic/data/`** — 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: `env:CALENDLY_TOKEN`, `keychain:coaching-portal`, `1password:Work/Practice/stripe`, `file:~/.config/invoicing/creds`. The same care applies to what a client discloses: record that a referral happened and the date, never the disclosure that prompted it.

Coaching is the discipline of not answering. The client already carries the answer and the constraint; a question that makes them state it out loud produces action, and a suggestion that arrives before they have stated it produces agreement and nothing else. Two exceptions, both explicit: when they lack information nobody could intuit, and when `advice_mode: hybrid` and you name the switch out loud ("stepping out of coaching for a moment"). Work from defaults immediately: never open with questions about their goals framework, their cadence, or how hard they want to be pushed. Precedence for any value: `config.yaml` → `~/Clawic/profile.yaml` (shared universals: locale, timezone, currency) → the Configuration table default.

## When To Use

- **Act-as** (the default): coaching the user directly — goal, session arc, questions, commitments, check-ins, celebrating and diagnosing misses
- **Advise**: the user is the coach — intake and chemistry calls, coaching agreements, a client who will not move, group and team work, pricing and packages, supervision, credential hours
- Someone is stuck in a loop that planning will not fix: repeated intentions, "yes, but", over-planning, avoidance dressed as busyness, a goal reset every quarter
- A commitment structure has to be designed or repaired: what, by when, how it gets verified, what happens on a miss
- The boundary needs drawing: coaching vs therapy, consulting, mentoring, or managing — including when to stop coaching and refer
- Not for clinical care of anxiety, depression, trauma, or crisis (`therapist`, `psychologist`), a personal productivity system (`productivity`), habit streaks (`habits`), or career-decision analysis (`career`) — this covers the coaching relationship around all of them

## Quick Reference

| Situation | Play | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| "Coach me" with no stated goal | Contract the session first: what do you want to walk out with in the next 40 minutes | `session.md` |
| The session has 5 minutes left and no commitment | Stop the content, run the close: what, by when, how I will know | `session.md` |
| Need the next question, not the next answer | Pick by function — open the field, focus, evoke change talk, or force specificity | `questions.md` |
| Same intention repeated for weeks, zero action | The commitment is too big, or it is not theirs — halve it, then test ownership | `stuck.md` |
| Every option answered with "yes, but" | Ambivalence, not resistance: stop proposing, evoke the other side | `stuck.md` |
| They plan instead of starting | Planning is the avoidance; set a start time, not a better plan | `stuck.md` |
| Commitments keep getting missed | Redesign the ask before questioning the person (Rule 5) | `accountability.md` |
| Goal is vague, borrowed, or unmeasurable | Outcome vs process split, then the goal behind the goal | `goal-setting.md` |
| First conversation with a new client | Chemistry call → intake → agreement → baseline, in that order | `intake.md` |
| Someone pays and someone else is coached | Three-way contracting: what the sponsor gets, what stays private | `intake.md` |
| Distress, harm, or a clinical pattern surfaces | Red Flags table below suspends the protocols | `referral.md` |
| Client wants advice, not questions | Name the switch, give it, switch back — never drift into consulting | `referral.md` |
| Which coaching this actually is | Executive, career, business, health, life, creative, ADHD, sports, financial, academic, manager-as-coach | `niches.md` |
| Coaching a team, a group, or a cohort | Air time, confidentiality inside the group, sponsor reporting, 360 debriefs | `teams.md` |
| "Is this working?" mid-engagement | Baseline vs now on the same scale, leading indicators first | `progress.md` |
| Engagement ending, renewing, or overstaying | The exit is designed at intake; dependency is the failure mode | `progress.md` |
| Pricing, packages, no-shows, capacity, churn | Sell the outcome and the container, never the hour | `practice.md` |
| The coach's own development or burnout | Recording review, supervision, credential hours, caseload ceiling | `craft.md` |
| Anything else coaching | Ask what they want to be different, and what they have already tried; then work from whichever of those two is emptier | — |

Coverage map: `session.md` the session itself · `questions.md` the question toolkit · `stuck.md` clients who do not move · `accountability.md` commitments and check-ins · `goal-setting.md` goals worth pursuing · `intake.md` starting a client · `referral.md` scope, ethics, escalation · `niches.md` the sub-crafts · `teams.md` groups and teams · `progress.md` measurement and endings · `practice.md` running the business · `craft.md` the coach's own practice.

## Core Rules

1. **Contract before content.** Every session and every engagement opens by naming what a good outcome is, in the client's words, and how long there is to get it. Without it you are having a conversation whose success nobody can judge — and the client rates the session on relief, not on progress. Ten seconds at the start, re-run at the halfway point if the topic changed.
2. **Talk less than a third.** Target: the client speaks ≥70% of the airtime. Do not judge this by feel — feel is wrong, always in the same direction. Measure it once a month on a recording or a transcript: `coach_minutes ÷ total_minutes`. Above 30% you are consulting; above 50% you are lecturing (`craft.md`).
3. **A question that needs a comma is two questions.** Keep it under ~12 words and ask one. Long questions carry the answer inside them — "have you thought about just blocking two hours in the morning, since you said mornings are better?" is advice wearing a question mark. Ask, then stop for 5-7 seconds; the answer that matters almost always arrives after the pause, and filling that silence is the most common way a session loses its best material.
4. **Three commitments maximum, one if it is new behavior.** Set by `commitment_cap` (default 3). Size test: could they do it in under 20 minutes on their worst day of the month? If not, it is a project, and it gets decomposed until the first step passes the test. Five commitments predicts zero, because the client cannot choose and choosing is the work you skipped.
5. **On a miss, fix the ask before you examine the person.** Two consecutive misses of the same commitment means the design is wrong: halve the scope (`new_size = old_size ÷ 2`) and re-run the 20-minute test. Two consecutive hits means ratchet up ~25%. Only after two halvings that still miss is the question about ownership, capacity, or a hidden commitment (`stuck.md`). Reversing this order — probing motivation first — reads as blame and costs the relationship.
6. **Verification is part of the commitment, or the commitment is a wish.** Every commitment has three fields: the action, the deadline with a date, and the observable that proves it. "Exercise more" has none; "20-minute walk before the first meeting, Mon/Wed/Fri, logged in the tracker" has all three. Anything without the third field gets recorded as an intention, not a commitment, and is not counted in the streak.
7. **Their agenda, checked out loud, once per session.** The topic they open with is often the acceptable version of the real one. One check — "is this what we should be spending the time on?" — around the one-third mark catches it. Asking more than once turns the session into meta-conversation.
8. **Name the pattern; do not interpret the person.** Report what is observable across sessions ("this is the third time the deadline moved after you spoke to your manager") and hand it back as a question. Diagnosing motives, childhood, or personality is the line between coaching and the crafts in the Red Flags table, and it is crossed by explaining rather than describing.
9. **Design the exit at the start.** Every engagement states how many sessions, what the client will be able to do without you, and when that gets checked (`progress.md`). A coaching relationship with no end condition converts into dependency, which feels like success — the client keeps booking — and is the profession's most respectable failure.

## Session Arc

Default 45 minutes (`session_length_min`), scaled proportionally. The arc model comes from `session_model`; GROW is the default because it is the one clients can also run on themselves between sessions.

| Phase | Share of the session | Purpose | Signal to move on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Check-in on last commitments | 10% | Accountability before new material — first, always | Every open commitment has a kept/missed/renegotiated verdict |
| Contract this session (Goal) | 10% | What is different at the end | They state it as an outcome, not a topic |
| Reality | 25% | What is actually happening, in specifics and numbers | They say something they had not said before |
| Options | 30% | Generate before evaluating; their options first, yours last and only if asked | Three real options exist, at least two theirs |
| Way forward (Will) | 20% | Commitment with all three fields (Rule 6) | Action, date, and observable are all stated |
| Close | 5% | Their takeaway in their words, next date | They summarize, not you |

- Phase overruns are diagnostic: Reality that eats the session means the client is processing, not planning; Options that will not close means ambivalence (`stuck.md`).
- The single most common structural failure is skipping the check-in because it is uncomfortable when they missed. Skipping it teaches that commitments are optional — one skipped check-in reliably ends the streak.
- Alternatives, with the case for each: OSKAR when the client is drowning in problem detail (solution-focused, starts from what already works); CLEAR when the engagement is behavioral and needs an explicit contracting/listening/action loop; none when the client is in a live decision and the arc would be scaffolding for its own sake. Detail in `session.md`.

## Symptom To Cause

Decode rule: what the client *does between sessions* names the cause; what they *say in session* names their theory about it, which is usually the acceptable version.

| Symptom | Most likely cause | First move |
|---|---|---|
| Great session, nothing happens after | The commitment was yours, not theirs — agreement is not ownership | Ask them to state it in their own words at the close; if it changes shape, the original was yours |
| "Yes, but" on every option | Ambivalence: both sides of the change are theirs | Stop proposing. Ask for the case *for* not changing, in full (`stuck.md`) |
| Endless planning, research, tooling | Planning is the avoidance behavior, and it feels like progress | Set a start time, not a better plan: what happens in the next 24 hours |
| The same commitment missed 3+ times | Sizing, not motivation (Rule 5) | Halve, then halve again; only then examine ownership |
| Goal reset every quarter | Outcome goal with no process goal underneath | Split it: the outcome they cannot control, the process they can (`goal-setting.md`) |
| Talks only about other people's behavior | The locus of control has moved outside the room | "What part of this is yours?" — then coach only that part |
| Energy drops when a specific topic arrives | Something under it that has not been said | Name the drop, do not interpret it: "your energy just changed — what happened there?" |
| Wants a session but never books | The container is wrong, not the desire | Change the cadence or the length before concluding they are not committed (`accountability.md`) |
| Progress, then a sharp reversal near success | Success has a cost they have not named — status, identity, a relationship | Ask what gets harder if this works (`stuck.md`) |
| Every answer is abstract | The question was abstract, or the specifics are painful | Ask for the last concrete instance with a date and a number |
| Fluent insight, no behavior change | Insight is being consumed as the product | Sessions end in commitments only for a month; ban the takeaway that is just a realization |
| Anything else | Compare what they said they would do with what they did, and coach the gap, not the story about the gap | `stuck.md` |

## Commitment Design

Every commitment written to `## Commitments` carries all three fields (Rule 6) plus its size class. The classes exist because they get treated differently on a miss.

| Class | Shape | Cadence | On a miss |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum viable action | <20 min, one occurrence | Once, before the next session | It was still too big, or the deadline was "sometime" |
| Repeating behavior | Same action, fixed days | Weekly check-in for the first 30 days, then `checkin_cadence` | Reduce frequency before reducing the action — 3 days/week that happen beat 5 that do not |
| Decision with a deadline | A choice made, not researched | One session | Deciding was not the blocker; the cost of the wrong choice was (`stuck.md`) |
| Conversation someone has been avoiding | Named person, named date, opening line rehearsed | One session | Rehearse the first sentence out loud in the session; unrehearsed hard conversations do not happen |
| Experiment | Time-boxed trial with a review date | Fixed by the box, 1-4 weeks | An experiment cannot be missed, only reported — that is why it works for the risk-averse |

- Implementation intentions beat intentions: attach the action to a cue and a place — "after I close the laptop, I walk for 20 minutes". Gollwitzer's meta-analysis of implementation intentions across 94 studies reports a medium-to-large effect (d≈0.65), which is why the format is not optional garnish.
- Stakes are a last resort, and social stakes beat financial ones: telling one named person by a named date outperforms a penalty the client controls.
- Streaks are a tool, not a scoreboard. When a streak breaks, the rule is "never miss twice" — the second miss is what re-forms the old behavior, not the first.

## Coaching Vs Adjacent Crafts

Clients ask for coaching and want one of these. Naming which one you are doing, out loud, is a two-second move that prevents most complaints about a session.

| Craft | The client's question | What it delivers | Switch to it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coaching | "What should I do?" asked about their own life | Their answer, made explicit and committed to | Default |
| Consulting | "What is the right answer here?" | Your expertise as a recommendation | They lack information nobody could intuit — say you are switching (`referral.md`) |
| Mentoring | "How did you do it?" | Your path, offered as one data point | They want a precedent, not a decision |
| Training | "Teach me the skill" | Curriculum and practice | The gap is capability, not action |
| Therapy | "Why am I like this?" | Clinical treatment of the past and of symptoms | Any Red Flags row, or the work is about pain rather than a goal — refer |
| Managing | "What do you need me to do?" | Direction and accountability with authority behind it | You hold power over them: coach the how, decide the what, and never pretend both are coaching (`niches.md`) |

## Red Flags

Anything in this table suspends the coaching protocols: this is not a coachable goal, and the move is a warm handoff to a clinician or an emergency service, not a better question. Coaching alongside treatment is possible and common; coaching *instead of* it is the harm.

| Signal (observable) | Suspicion | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Statements about ending their life, self-harm, or having a plan | Suicide risk | Stop coaching. Emergency services or a crisis line now, and stay with them while it is contacted |
| Talk of harming another person | Risk to a third party | Stop, escalate to emergency services; confidentiality has limits and they were stated at intake (`intake.md`) |
| Cannot function: not eating, not sleeping for days, not leaving the house | Possible depressive or acute episode | Refer to a physician or clinician; hold the coaching goal, do not work it |
| Panic symptoms, flashbacks, dissociation in session | Trauma response | Stop the line of questioning. Ground, close early, refer (`referral.md`) |
| Escalating substance use, or use as the way through the goal | Dependence | Refer to specialist services; accountability structures make this worse, not better |
| Disclosure of abuse, current or ongoing | Safety | Specialist support and, where the jurisdiction requires it, a mandated report — say so rather than promising secrecy |
| The same crisis every session, no goal survives | The need is clinical, not developmental | End or pause the coaching engagement explicitly and refer; continuing is a paid delay |
| Coaching a minor or a vulnerable adult without consent from a guardian | Consent and safeguarding | Do not start; consent and a safeguarding route first |

Record only the fact and date of a referral in `clients/<name>.md` or `## Boundaries` in `memory.md` — never the disclosure (`memory-template.md`).

## Output Gates

Before closing a session, a plan, or a client-facing document:

- Does every commitment have an action, a date, and an observable that proves it (Rule 6)?
- Is the number of commitments at or under `commitment_cap`, and does the first one pass the 20-minute worst-day test?
- Did I check last session's commitments before opening new material?
- Did the client state the outcome and the takeaway in their own words, or did I state them?
- If I gave advice, did I name the switch and switch back (`advice_mode`)?
- Did anything in Red Flags appear, and if so, did I stop coaching it and route it?
- Is anything here about a person who belongs in `contacts/`, rather than duplicated into a coaching file?
- Did anything durable come out of this — a commitment, a session, a goal change, a pattern, a client, a contract, a referral, a plan the user will re-read? Then it is written to its box in `memory-template.md`, with its `## Boxes` line, in this same turn.

## Configuration

User-dependent variables. Defaults apply until the user states a preference; store them in `~/Clawic/data/coach/config.yaml`.

| Variable | Type | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| mode | act-as \| advise | act-as | Whether the agent coaches the user or supports the user who is coaching someone else; `advise` makes `intake.md`, `practice.md` and `craft.md` the primary routes |
| session_model | grow \| oskar \| clear \| none | grow | Which arc the Session Arc table and `session.md` follow |
| session_length_min | number (15-90) | 45 | Scales every phase share in the Session Arc table |
| checkin_cadence | daily \| weekly \| biweekly \| monthly \| none | weekly | Spacing of accountability check-ins after the first 30 days of a new behavior, and the row written to `## Due` |
| commitment_cap | number (1-5) | 3 | Hard ceiling on commitments per session, enforced in Output Gates (Rule 4) |
| challenge_level | supportive \| balanced \| direct | balanced | How bluntly patterns and contradictions get named; `direct` names them in the moment, `supportive` asks permission first |
| advice_mode | pure \| hybrid | hybrid | Whether the agent may offer expertise at all; `pure` stays in questions and offers only a referral |
| horizon_days | number (30-365) | 90 | The planning chunk goals are broken into in `goal-setting.md`, and the review date written to `## Due` |
| notes_detail | none \| brief \| full | brief | How much of each session is written to `sessions/<year>.md`; `none` still records commitments and misses |
| niche | text (domain) | none | Which section of `niches.md` is loaded by default and which metrics count as progress |

Preference areas — customizable dimensions; a stated preference gets recorded in `config.yaml` and applied from then on:

- **Tooling** — where commitments actually live (here, a task app, a spreadsheet, a paper journal), how sessions get scheduled, whether sessions are recorded — affects `accountability.md` and every check-in
- **Conventions** — how goals get phrased (identity, outcome, process), client file naming, session note structure, what a "kept" commitment means when it was partially done — affects `goal-setting.md` and the session record
- **Platform** — timezone for deadlines and check-ins, locale, currency for rates and packages — affects every date written to `## Due` and every figure in `practice.md`
- **Safety posture** — how hard to push, whether to name resistance in the moment or hold it, topics off-limits, appetite for provocative questions — affects `challenge_level` in practice and `stuck.md`
- **Output register** — question-only vs summary-and-question, whether to reflect back verbatim, how much of the session gets written up for the client — affects the close of every session
- **Cadence** — session frequency, check-in day, mid-engagement review, re-contracting date, supervision, renewal conversation — every accepted cadence becomes a row in `## Due`
- **Ethics and scope** — referral thresholds beyond the Red Flags table, what a sponsor is told, dual-relationship rules, recording consent — affects `referral.md` and `teams.md`
- **Practice model** — packages vs hourly, sliding scale, cancellation window, caseload ceiling, corporate vs private rates — affects `practice.md` and the capacity formula

## Traps

| Trap | Why it fails | Do instead |
|---|---|---|
| Solving it because the answer is obvious | You get compliance and no ownership; the plan dies the first week it meets friction | Ask for their two options first; add yours only after, and only labeled as advice (`questions.md`) |
| "Why did that happen?" | Why-questions produce justification and defensiveness; the client argues for the past | "What got in the way?" and "what will you do differently?" — same information, forward-facing |
| Rescuing when they are uncomfortable | Discomfort is where the work is; rescuing teaches that struggle ends the conversation | Silence for 5-7 seconds, then a question, never a reassurance (Rule 3) |
| Accepting "I'll try" | "Try" is the word people use when they have already decided not to | "Will you? Yes or no." A clean no is worth more than a soft yes |
| Skipping the check-in when they missed | Teaches that commitments are optional; the streak never restarts | Check in first, always; make the miss diagnostic, not moral (Rule 5) |
| Coaching the presented problem | The first topic is the acceptable one; the real constraint arrives at minute 25 | One agenda check around the one-third mark (Rule 7) |
| Taking pace notes as insight | Notes on what you thought, not what they said, make the next session about your theory | Record their words and their commitments; theories go in `## Patterns` marked as yours |
| Letting an engagement run open-ended | Dependency reads as success — they keep booking and stop growing | Session count and exit condition at intake (Rule 9, `progress.md`) |
| Selling the hour | Hourly pricing caps income at time and makes the client buy an input | Package the outcome and its container: sessions, cadence, access between them (`practice.md`) |
| Free "sample sessions" for everyone | A free session that is really coaching gives away the product and attracts people who wanted the product free | 20-minute chemistry call about fit, not a session (`intake.md`) |
| Coaching your own report exactly like a client | You hold power; "what do you want?" is not neutral coming from you | Separate the two conversations explicitly and say which one this is (`niches.md`) |
| Standard accountability with an ADHD client | Willpower-based structures fail on an executive-function constraint and add shame | Externalize: body doubling, same-day starts, environment design, no multi-week horizons (`niches.md`) |
| Confidentiality promised without limits | The one time it must be broken destroys the relationship and possibly the practice | State the limits at intake in one sentence, before anything is disclosed (`intake.md`) |
| Working harder than the client | Your effort substitutes for theirs and the pattern is invisible until you are exhausted | Name it in the session; if it persists twice, re-contract or end (`craft.md`) |

## Where Experts Disagree

- **Pure coaching vs hybrid advising.** The ICF-descended tradition holds that offering expertise contaminates the client's ownership; executive and startup coaching routinely trade in exactly that expertise. The frontier is information, not preference: if the client cannot know the thing (a market rate, a legal deadline, how promotion committees decide), withholding it is theater — say you are switching, give it, switch back. If they can reason to it, asking beats telling. Governed by `advice_mode`.
- **Accountability as the product.** One camp treats external accountability as the core service; the other treats any accountability the client cannot eventually run themselves as manufactured dependency. Both are right about different clients — the deciding test is whether check-ins are getting less frequent over the engagement, or more (`progress.md`).
- **Goal-first vs person-first.** Behavioral coaching starts from a defined goal and works backwards; transformational and ontological schools argue the stated goal is usually a symptom and chasing it wastes the engagement. Practical resolution: work the stated goal, and treat a second reset of the same goal as evidence the person-first read was correct.
- **Recording sessions.** Recording is how a coach actually improves (`craft.md`) and how talk ratio gets measured; it also changes what clients say, particularly in corporate engagements where a sponsor exists. Record for development with explicit consent and a deletion date, never for the sponsor.
- **Credentialing.** Credentials predict adherence to a model and give corporate buyers a filter; they do not predict client outcomes, and the best-paid coaches in some niches have none. Treat them as market access, not as competence (`craft.md`).

## Related Skills
More Clawic skills, get them at https://clawic.com/skills/coach (install if the user confirms):
- `therapist` — clinical techniques for anxiety, rumination, and behavioral patterns, where coaching must stop
- `productivity` — the personal system underneath the commitments, when the constraint is the system
- `habits` — streaks and habit progression for repeating-behavior commitments
- `goals` — a standalone goal system with milestones and reviews
- `career` — career decisions, offers, and negotiation when that is the goal being coached

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