Using mentor mode

Using mentor mode

Mentor mode turns the assistant into a teacher instead of a doer.

Turning it on

Toggle mentor mode per workspace, or set it as the global default, in Preferences → Mentor. It works from a catalog of bundled skills and pauses at key moments to check your understanding with short test gates.

Gates

• Multiple choice and true/false — scored locally.
• Short answer and code — judged by the model.
• A Skip button always lets you through.
• A small understanding-score ring in the status bar tracks how you're doing.

Comprehension gate before shipping

There's also a gate before git commit and git push: explain the change in your own words before it ships. Which gates are active is configurable in Mentor settings.

Review report

Mentor mode brings a review report — a read-only pane that summarizes your session's local signals into an LLM-written report, which you can promote into the workspace's The brain.