devrel-career skill (samber): plan, land and grow a developer relations career

Coaches one person on a DevRel career: role choice, portfolio audit, interview prep, posting checks and the next rung.

Installs: 12.9K; on skills.sh
Stars: 7; on GitHub
Files: 6; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Nov 2026; last repo commit

devrel-career is a career coach for the candidate side of developer relations. After an interview of up to ten questions it routes your goal to a section: choosing a role, entry paths, a six-signal portfolio audit, interview preparation, reading a job posting for the "gatekeeper" and "pit trap" patterns, scoring an offer, or the ladder to the next rung. SKILL.md says it finds no job listings, fills in no applications and writes no recruiter outreach. Hiring managers should use devrel-hiring.

Good for

Engineers and writers trying to move into developer relations
DevRel practitioners preparing for the next rung
Candidates weighing a DevRel job posting or offer

Install devrel-career

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the devrel-career skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

/plugin marketplace add samber/developer-relations-skills
/plugin install developer-relations-skills@developer-relations-skills

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Install the whole set, not one skill: the README says the skills reference each other, so picking one leaves those pointers going nowhere. The repo tree holds 93 skill folders (the kickoff skill's text says 65). Fourteen of them bundle .py or .sh files; devrel-career bundles none. The tree holds no hooks, agents or MCP config files.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Plans, lands and advances a developer relations career from the candidate side - developer advocate, developer evangelist, DevRel engineer, community manager, developer educator, DX engineer. Covers portfolio audits against real hiring signals, a zero-to-hireable artefact curriculum, the six-rung IC ladder, the interview formats DevRel loops use (talk round, content and coding take-homes, DevRel-opinion round), gatekeeper and pit-trap patterns in postings, and offer evaluation weighing reporting line before pay. Use whenever someone asks how to break into DevRel, prep a developer advocate interview, build a DevRel portfolio, choose a track, plan the next rung, or weigh a DevRel offer - even if they only say "should I take this advocate job". Not a job-search tool.

Sections in SKILL.md

Interview
Choosing a role
Entry paths
Portfolio audit
The ladder and the skill-gap roadmap
Reading a job posting
Interview preparation
Scoring an offer
The IC / management fork
What separates top practitioners
Company type and GTM motion
Compensation
Sustainability
Output shape
Failure modes
Objective and measurement

Key facts

Author: Samuel Berthe (named in SKILL.md metadata and the plugin manifest)
License: MIT (LICENSE file, SKILL.md and plugin.json agree)
Installs on skills.sh: 12,851 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 8 for the whole samber/developer-relations-skills repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Last repo commit: Nov 1, 2026
Audits on skills.sh: Gen Agent Trust Hub: pass, Socket: pass, Snyk: pass
What it includes: 7 files in the git tree: SKILL.md, 5 reference files and evals/evals.json. No scripts.
Part of: The developer-relations-skills plugin: 93 skill folders in the git tree
Works in: Claude Code and Claude.ai plugin marketplaces, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI, as the README documents

What it includes

Up to ten questions; deadline, one-off or compounding and effort reorder paths
Starts from where you are now and your goal, then role, niche, public artefacts, company type, deadline, constraints and effort ceiling.
Read · Interview
Separates advocate, community manager, educator, DX engineer and others
The advocate role splits into outreach-focused and product-focused, which are screened on different evidence.
Read · Choosing a role
Five routes ranked by return per month of unpaid effort
Internal transfer, engineer to public work, adjacent-role sidestep, community volunteering and learn to code first. Ruled-out routes are deleted, not ranked last.
Read · Entry paths
Scores shipped work against a six-signal rubric and names negative signals
Evidence beats claims and outcome beats activity. It tells you not to optimize a resume for applicant-tracking keywords.
Read · Portfolio audit
Tests a posting for gatekeeper and pit-trap patterns
Lists counter-questions to ask the loop, such as success in twelve months and the reporting line.
Read · Reading a job posting
Prepares per format across seven formats and a story bank
Presentation round, content take-home, coding take-home, technical self-rating, conversational rounds, DevRel-opinion round and founder or exec round. It advises declining unpaid spec work.
Write · Interview preparation
Scores reporting line, then coding depth, then package
Watches for title arbitrage, where an advocate title hides a support queue or pre-sales calendar.
Read · Scoring an offer
Six rungs on five dimensions, with a promotion case built on evidence
Rungs: junior or apprentice, mid-level, senior, staff, principal, distinguished. Promotion is recognition of work already done at the next level.
Write · The ladder and the IC or management fork
Never quotes undated pay; pulls dated, sourced figures if it can browse
Each figure carries source, date, geography and grade.
Network · Compensation

From the official docs

Permissions

Low risk

devrel-career is interview and planning instructions with no scripts, and it may save notes to devrel-context.md. Our advice: check that file before you commit it.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

It may save notes to devrel-context.md
SKILL.md tells Claude to keep task and project context in devrel-context.md when memory lives in a file, or in the memory system your tool already uses. Check the file before you commit it. github.com
It may browse the web for pay figures
SKILL.md says to pull current figures with source, date, geography and grade if the agent can browse. The pages it opens depend on your tool's browsing setup. github.com
The whole-set install adds 93 skills, 14 with scripts
The README says to install every skill. The git tree has 93 skill folders, and 14 of them hold .py or .sh files. This skill bundles no scripts and the tree holds no hooks, agents or MCP config files. github.com

Technical details

Turning on read-only	SKILL.md describes no read-only mode.
Sign-in and keys	SKILL.md names no account, key or token.
Scopes	Claude reads the resumes, links and offers you paste into the conversation Claude may browse the web for dated pay figures if your tool allows it Writes devrel-context.md when memory lives in a file

Questions

What does devrel-career do?

It coaches one person through a DevRel career decision. It picks a role, audits your public portfolio on six signals, prepares you for the interview formats this field uses, checks a posting, scores an offer and plans the next rung.

How do I install it?

Use the install box at the top. The README says to install every skill in the repo, because the skills point to each other. The box shows the whole-set routes the README documents.

How is it different from devrel-hiring?

devrel-career is for the person being evaluated. devrel-hiring is the employer's side: postings, scorecards, loops and ramp plans. Each tells you to switch if you asked the wrong one.

Will it find jobs or apply for me?

No. SKILL.md says it is not a job-search tool: it finds no listings, fills in no applications, writes no recruiter outreach and submits nothing.

Does it give salary numbers?

Not from memory. SKILL.md says never to quote DevRel pay figures from memory. If Claude can browse, it pulls current figures and gives each a source, date, geography and grade.

Is it safe to install?

The skill bundles no scripts. Resumes, links and offer details you paste go into your conversation, and Claude may browse the web for pay figures if your tool allows it. The whole-set install adds 93 skills, some of which bundle scripts.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: samber/developer-relations-skills
Folder: skills/devrel-career

samber/developer-relations-skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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devrel-career SKILL.md · github.com
README · github.com
LICENSE · github.com
devrel-hiring file · github.com