Algo Sensei — DSA & LeetCode Mentor
An algorithms coaching skill that auto-detects your intent and switches between tutoring, progressive hints, code review, mock interviews, and pattern mapping.
EducationBeginner★ 242⑂ 51AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 22, 2025
What it does
- Reads your request keywords and routes to one of five modes: Tutor, Hint, Review, Interview, Pattern Mapper.
- Teaches Socratically — leading questions and staged hints instead of dumping the answer.
- Reports time complexity (best/average/worst) and auxiliary space, plus trade-offs versus alternative approaches.
- Helps you recognize patterns (Two Pointers, Sliding Window, DP, Binary Search, Graphs, Backtracking, Monotonic Stack) and suggests similar problems.
- Answers in your language of choice: Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, Go, TypeScript, Rust and more.
Who it's for
- Developers and students grinding LeetCode for technical interviews
- Learners who want to build intuition instead of copying solutions
- Junior engineers who want their code and complexity sanity-checked
Example uses
- "Don't spoil it — give me progressive hints for this problem" → Hint mode reveals the approach step by step.
- "Review my two-pointer solution, is it better than O(n²)?" → Review mode gives complexity analysis and refactor ideas.
- "Run a mock interview, you be the interviewer" → Interview mode asks follow-ups and scores your explanation.
- "What pattern is this problem?" → Pattern Mapper classifies it and lists similar questions.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/karanb192/algo-sensei/HEAD/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the SKILL.m folder from the GitHub repo karanb192/algo-sensei into my ~/.claude/skills/algo-sensei/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/karanb192/algo-sensei.git ~/.claude/skills/algo-sensei⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal.
- Create the skills folder if needed:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Clone the repo into it:
git clone https://github.com/karanb192/algo-sensei.git ~/.claude/skills/algo-sensei - Confirm
SKILL.mdplus themodes/,templates/, anddocs/folders came along — the per-mode instructions live there. - Restart Claude Code, then try: "use algo sensei to hint me through this LeetCode problem".
- For project-only use, clone into your project's
.claude/skillsdirectory instead of the home path.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT