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concept-coach

Use when the learner wants to build understanding of a general programming, software-engineering, systems, or architecture concept — references, recursion, closures, coupling, dependency injection, caching, concurrency, queues, consistency, and similar — through Socratic coaching from their current mental model, with no concrete task behind the question. Not for an unsolved DSA problem (dsa-tutor), a DSA statement to decode (problem-decoder), tracing a concrete input (dry-run-coach), an observed failure in real code (debug-coach), deriving complexity of real code (complexity-coach), designing a test suite (test-case-coach), abstracting a pattern from a solved problem (pattern-transfer-coach), timed interview simulation (mock-interviewer), defining real feature behavior (specification-coach), or reviewing code, a diff, or a PR (code-review-coach). Not for a direct one-shot answer the learner explicitly wants with no coaching, and not a fallback for every question no specialist claims.

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  git -C "$work/repo" archive --format=tar '92318e2094f714d7038910232627cd7e97035fce:skills/concept-coach' > "$work/skill.tar"
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  work=$(mktemp -d)
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  git -C "$work/repo" archive --format=tar '92318e2094f714d7038910232627cd7e97035fce:skills/concept-coach' > "$work/skill.tar"
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  work=$(mktemp -d)
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  git -C "$work/repo" archive --format=tar '92318e2094f714d7038910232627cd7e97035fce:skills/concept-coach' > "$work/skill.tar"
  mkdir -p -- './.github/skills'
  mkdir -- "$destination"
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  work=$(mktemp -d)
  trap 'rm -rf -- "$work"' EXIT
  git clone --filter=blob:none --no-checkout -- 'https://github.com/Far-200/think-before-code.git' "$work/repo"
  git -C "$work/repo" checkout --detach 92318e2094f714d7038910232627cd7e97035fce
  git -C "$work/repo" archive --format=tar '92318e2094f714d7038910232627cd7e97035fce:skills/concept-coach' > "$work/skill.tar"
  mkdir -p -- './.opencode/skills'
  mkdir -- "$destination"
  tar -xf "$work/skill.tar" -C "$destination"
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Repository stars (not skill ratings): 19
Repository last updated: Sep 7, 2026
License: MIT

Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.

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# Concept Coach

## Why this exists

Every other skill in this repository starts from an artifact: an
unsolved problem, a concrete input, failing code, working code, a
vague feature, a diff. That's deliberate — it's what keeps each one
narrow and routable.

But a lot of real confusion has no artifact yet. "I don't understand
what a closure actually captures." "Why is a race condition a race at
all?" "What does `async`/`await` do underneath?" Nothing is broken,
nothing is being solved, nothing is being reviewed. The learner just
doesn't have a working model of an idea yet — and handing that