# Coaching working map

> Use when more than one concern is in the air and you’re losing which is which — or they keep blending separate pulls into one blob.

- Skill: `yanqingcheng/coaching-working-map` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yanqingcheng/coaching-working-map`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yanqingcheng/coaching-working-map/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: yanqingcheng (https://skillmd.com/u/yanqingcheng)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yanqingcheng/coaching-working-map

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# Coaching working map

Track **the things** — each with its own logic — and **how they relate**. Write it; surface it. Not one blob.

Supports Half 1 **Map** (inventory) and **Understand** (shape written on the same page). Also the page you spell back at Half 2 open.

## When

Every coaching session.

## What to track

Per **thing:** name (their words) · local logic · open unknowns / load-bearing hinges.  
**Relations:** same? different? nested? in tension? causes?

## When they add something

Ask or confirm via [Make distinct](sand-workflow:make-distinct) / [Broaden](sand-workflow:broaden): **new thing, or where does it sit?** Don’t silently merge or fork.

## Do

Keep it written and sketchable. Surface with [Say it back](sand-workflow:say-it-back) when useful. On drift: rewrite from theirs. On resume: restate things + relations.

**Map done (inventory):** nothing else *big* missing. That is **not** the Half 2 lean oracle — leaning Half 2 needs a **clear important problem** (ask / felt referent / multi-part) per [Coaching session](sand-workflow:coaching-session).  
**Understand** still writes shape/hinges/impasse notes onto this map.

## Don’t

Invent links · collapse distinct things · novel-length maps.

## Stop

Map current enough for the next move — or they corrected it.