Decide if a mentor relationship is actually helping your career
Having a mentor and being genuinely mentored are not the same thing, and the gap is easy to overlook out of loyalty.
- Use it for
- Anyone with an established mentor relationship who wants an honest check on whether it's actually still serving their career.
A mentor relationship that was genuinely valuable when it started can keep going out of habit and loyalty long after it's stopped providing real, current value — the comfort of an established relationship makes it easy to overlook that the actual guidance has become generic, outdated, or simply less relevant to where your career is now. This prompt checks the relationship's current value honestly rather than its historical value.
When not to use this
If the relationship is new or you're confident it's still providing real, specific value, this check isn't necessary yet.
Did this work?
You have an honest read on whether this relationship is providing real, specific value right now, not just whether it's comfortable or has been valuable historically.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.