Ambient coaching
Valor shows up in the flow of work itself, so reviews, debugging, and planning become growth moments instead of end-of-week recall.
Local-first · Device-local · Agent-integrated
Career coaching that lives where developers already work.
Valor runs inside Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor to turn daily execution into reusable evidence, better reflection, and clearer next-level growth.
Built for work use. Core memory, evidence, and career framework stay on your machine, not in a Valor backend.
Claude Code
Codex CLI
Cursor
One-line install
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yihanzhu/valor/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --clone
One install, shared local state. Use --target ... if you
only want one host.
Why teams try it
It captures the work that normal career tooling misses.
Valor is designed around the reality that modern engineering work already flows through coding agents. Instead of adding another HR system or manual brag doc, it uses that workflow as the coaching surface.
Evidence over vibes
Valor turns reviews, design work, debugging, and coordination into structured evidence you can reuse for weekly reflection and 1:1 prep.
Bring your own framework
Valor adapts to your company ladder, target level, and growth expectations instead of forcing a generic career rubric.
Across the workday
A simple loop that compounds over time.
01
Morning briefing
Tickets, PRs, calendar, coaching.
02
In-flow coaching
Map meaningful work to target-level signals.
03
Wrap-up
Save context and carry tomorrow forward.
What It Looks Like
Useful output, not another dashboard.
A good Valor interaction should help you decide what to do next, surface the risk, and connect the work to growth without making you fill out more process.
Sample output
Morning briefing
Primary focus
Land the auth retry fix before noon and post the rollout note in the incident thread.
Review queue
PR #418 needs a migration note before review. PR #421 looks unblocked and ready to merge.
Carry-forward
Yesterday's wrap-up flagged session cache risk across two tickets touching the same path.
Coaching nudge
This is next-level coordination work: reduce merge risk early and leave a handoff others can reuse.
Plus on-demand agents
Deeper guidance when you need it.
The repo currently ships eight guided workflows, plus the ambient coaching layer that rides alongside normal development work.
Weekly Reflection
Competency review and 1:1 narrative.
PR Review Coach
Senior-level code review guidance.
Design Doc Coach
Structured options and trade-offs.
Task Identifier
High-impact work, ranked by growth.
1:1 Prep
Evidence-grounded manager sync.
Setup
Career framework, level, and integration setup.
Read the docs
Start where you need depth.
Guide
Getting Started
Install Valor, run setup, and try the first workflows.
ReferenceArchitecture
See the install model, local state, agent flow, and update path.
ReferenceIntegrations
Understand GitHub, Jira, calendar, and news support.
TrustPrivacy Model
Review what stays local and what depends on your host assistant.
DirectionRoadmap
Track shipped phases and the next local-first ideas under discussion.
OverviewREADME
Start from the root overview, install flow, and command guide.