statement-coach
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill statement-coach --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 s
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework
- Output Format
- Scores (with the reason, not just the number)
- Line-level feedback
- Material-mining questions
- Revision plan
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the statement-coach skill 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. 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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill statement-coach --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.