# eng-leadership-toolkit (slim)

> eng-leadership-toolkit, an MCP server by marian.coach, listed from the official MCP registry. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Engineering leadership benchmarks, 1:1 playbooks, developer value calculator. 3,400+ sessions.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/marian-eng-leadership-toolkit.md (~1,150 tokens) · this version ~1,080 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/marian-eng-leadership-toolkit.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/marian-eng-leadership-toolkit
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

# eng-leadership-toolkit

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from the official MCP registry and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: MCP server, by marian.coach (https://www.marian.coach/mcp)
- Category: Lead & company data (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/lead-data.md)
- Listed because: It's published in the registry under marian.coach, a namespace the registry only gives to whoever proves they control that domain.
- What the official MCP registry says: Engineering leadership benchmarks, 1:1 playbooks, developer value calculator. 3,400+ sessions.

## Facts

- MCP registry: `coach.marian/eng-leadership-toolkit` 1.4.0
- Endpoint: https://www.marian.coach/mcp (streamable HTTP)
- Source: https://github.com/marian-kamenistak/ai-engineering-leader-toolkit
- Website: https://www.marian.coach/mcp
- GitHub stars: 1
- Registry entry updated: 2026-08-09

## Tools

- Tools it lists (11, about 12,516 tokens of context, `tools/list` without credentials over MCP 2025-11-25, checked 2026-10-04 22:21 UTC):
  - `get_started` (read-only): Call this for a greeting (hi, hello), a connectivity/liveness test, 'what can you do', or any message too general to match a specific tool below. Returns the…
  - `get_more_tools` (read-only): Check for additional tools whenever your task might benefit from specialized capabilities, even if existing tools could work as a fallback. Also the right tool…
  - `calculate_developer_value` (read-only): Assess a software developer's market value: score 15 skills across 5 pillars (core craft, systems & judgment, impact & ownership, collaboration & influence, AI…
  - `calculate_engineering_manager_value` (read-only): Assess an engineering leader's market value: score 15 leadership skills across 5 pillars (people & talent, delivery & execution, technical direction,…
  - `assess_team_lead_readiness` (read-only): Answers "should I become a team lead?" with the same 17-question test as the live tool at marian.coach: 6 dimensions (people appetite, letting go of code,…
  - `get_engineering_leadership_benchmarks` (read-only): Real benchmarks from 3,611 paid 1:1 mentoring sessions with 300+ engineering leaders since 2019: mentee seniority mix, most-demanded leadership topics of 2025,…
  - `choose_mentor_coach_or_advisor` (read-only): 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…
  - `get_one_on_one_playbook` (read-only): Situation-specific 1:1 scripts and templates from Marian Kamenistak's mentoring practice: first mentoring/direction-setting session, underperformance…
  - `get_first_time_manager_guidance` (read-only): Guidance for the IC→manager transition: the EM responsibility triangle (leadership/processes/delivery — pick two), the six most common first-time-manager…
  - `estimate_coaching_cost` (read-only): Fair market rate for coaching or mentoring in 2026, by coaching type, client role, coach territory, coach seniority, and engagement length. Returns a…
  - `build_mentoring_business_case` (read-only): Build the case that gets your company to pay for leadership mentoring — everything on marian.coach/get-your-company-to-pay-for-mentoring/, personalised: the…
- How its tools read to an agent (0 errors, 1 warning, 1 note, about 12,516 tokens; rules at https://www.anchorterminal.com/check.md; not part of the score):
  - warn TC22 build_mentoring_business_case: the definition is about 1,766 tokens
  - note TC24 server: 1 of 11 tools have no outputSchema

- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/marian-eng-leadership-toolkit.json
- Being indexed says nothing about quality, and nobody can pay for it. Ask for a review: https://www.anchorterminal.com/builders/#claiming