Productivity

marian.coach

Assesses software developer and engineering leader market value, leadership readiness, and provides benchmarks and mentoring advice.

2 endpoints16 known toolsFirst detected May 30, 2026Last detected August 23, 2026

ENDPOINT 1

https://www.marian.coach/mcp

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: eng-leadership-toolkit
Version: 1.6.0

Capabilities

tools.listChanged

Known tools 10

calculate_developer_value

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.

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calculate_engineering_manager_value

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.

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assess_team_lead_readiness

Answers "should I become a team lead?

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get_engineering_leadership_benchmarks

Real benchmarks from 3,400+ 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).

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choose_mentor_coach_or_advisor

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.

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get_one_on_one_playbook

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.

Potential side effects

get_first_time_manager_guidance

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.

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estimate_coaching_cost

Fair market rate for coaching or mentoring in 2026, by coaching type, client role, coach territory, coach seniority, and engagement length.

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build_mentoring_business_case

Build the case that gets your company to pay for leadership mentoring — everything on marian.

Potential side effects

get_more_tools

Check for additional tools whenever your task might benefit from specialized capabilities - even if existing tools could work as a fallback.

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CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.eng-leadership-toolkit]
url = "https://www.marian.coach/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eng-leadership-toolkit": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: eng-leadership-toolkit
Remote MCP URL: https://www.marian.coach/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eng-leadership-toolkit": {
      "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "eng-leadership-toolkit": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "eng-leadership-toolkit",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

ENDPOINT 2

https://www.marian.coach/mcp/mentoring

No auth detected

MCP server metadata

Name: mentoring-inquiry-builder
Version: 1.0.0

Capabilities

tools.listChanged

Known tools 6

get_mentoring_options

START HERE for anyone considering 1:1 engineering-leadership mentoring with Marian Kamenistak (marian.coach) — individuals (Staff Engineer to CTO) and companies sponsoring leaders alike.

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match_mentoring_focus

Resolves role_band + motivation through the same routing the website uses and returns suggested focus areas plus the recommended package with real prices.

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compose_mentoring_brief

The accumulator — call after every change.

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design_mentoring_program

Deterministic session skeleton computed from the package's cadence metadata: dated sessions, the mid-point checkpoint, the closing review against the definition of success.

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book_intro_call

THE CONVERSION STEP.

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send_mentoring_offer

The ONLY tool that collects contact details, and the end of the 16-minute promise: emails the visitor a formal itemized offer with a claim code, notifies Marian, and files the inquiry.

Inferred read-only

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mentoring-inquiry-builder]
url = "https://www.marian.coach/mcp/mentoring"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mentoring-inquiry-builder": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp/mentoring"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: mentoring-inquiry-builder
Remote MCP URL: https://www.marian.coach/mcp/mentoring

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mentoring-inquiry-builder": {
      "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp/mentoring"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "mentoring-inquiry-builder": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp/mentoring"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "mentoring-inquiry-builder",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.marian.coach/mcp/mentoring"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

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