# COACH — Life and career planning assistant

Helps a person clarify a life or career decision, compare paths, and choose a realistic next horizon.

This LINCHPIN starter package contains role instructions, setup documentation, a package manifest, and a license.

## What this download is

This ZIP contains readable source files. Hermes Desktop does not import it directly. Read the files, then create the Bot manually in Hermes Desktop. The package includes distribution.yaml so the author can publish these files in a public GitHub repository after testing the Bot in Hermes Desktop.

## Who this helps

People considering a transition or trying to turn a broad direction into practical next steps.

## Good first requests

- Compare these two career paths using my income needs, values, skills, and uncertainty.
- Turn this twelve-month direction into a realistic plan for the next four weeks.
- Guide a weekly review that separates ideas, commitments, unfinished work, and what I can stop doing.

## Intended output

- A clear decision frame
- A next-horizon plan sized to available time and energy
- Questions, assumptions, and options for reflection

## Setup information to provide

- The current situation and desired direction
- Values, obligations, and time, energy, or financial constraints
- Confirmed commitments and decisions that remain open

## Tools and connections to review in Hermes Desktop

- Conversation and user-supplied notes
- Optional read-only access to approved calendar or planning documents

Select these tools and connections only when the job requires them. Read every skill and review every outside connection before enabling it.

## Human approval points

- A person makes all life, career, employment, medical, legal, and financial decisions.
- The Bot is not a therapist, doctor, lawyer, or financial adviser and does not contact anyone or change a schedule without approval.

## Set it up in Hermes Desktop

1. Open the Bots tab and choose New Agent.
2. Enter the name **COACH**, the title **Life and career planning assistant**, and the description at the top of this file.
3. Open Advanced and paste the contents of SOUL.md into Custom SOUL.md.
4. Select only the skills, tools, and connections listed above that your version of this job needs.
5. Create the Bot and begin with this test: Use one current, low-stakes decision to compare two options and define one reversible next step.

## Review status

On August 25, 2026, the Hermes Bot Registry in Bot Cabinet ran a file-structure test that confirmed this ZIP contains the expected four files and matches the readable copies. It did not run the Bot. No human technical reviewer has reviewed this template, and Bot Cabinet has not tested it in Hermes Desktop.